Transdniester Detains Moldovan Police
June 15, 2006
A Ukrainian guard on the country's border with the breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniester (file photo) (ITAR-TASS)
Moldovan police dismissed the accusations as "absurd" and Interior Minister Gheorghe Papuc said the detentions were a "provocation."
The detentions signal a fresh rise in tensions between pro-Russian Transdniester and Moldova's pro-Western authorities.
(AP, ITAR-TASS)