15 years ago the press wrote that at least six factories from the left of the Nistru produced armament and munitions.

The journalists retrospect to a report of the Governmental Commission for settling the transnistrian conflict. 

Those would have manufactured tens of launching missiles, thousands of guns, but also mines, which probably spread to more countries where military conflicts took place.

For instance, the Kalashnikov guns, manufactured in the transnistrean area, were used in Chechnya, Abkhazia and also in the former Yugoslavia.

5 years ago the press from Chisinau wrote that the guns and munitions were hidden in the cement produced in Ribnita and drove to the Caucasus, the Middle East, but also to some African countries.

In November 2012, Moldovan prosecutors detained three members of a criminal group specialized in the sale of firearms and ammunition.

Smuggled goods were brought from Transnistria, from where two of the suspects originated, and deposited in Causeni district, at the residence of the third one.

Prosecutors have organized many control acquisitions from the smugglers, of 6,000 euros worth.

Last week, Parliament urged Russia, in a statement, to withdraw the troops and weapons from the territory of our country.

And the chairman of the Moldovan Democratic Party, Vlad Plahotniuc, asked for the same thing in New York two weeks ago.

He underlined that in a speech at the Council of the Socialist International as Vice-President of this important structure.

According to various sources, the Transnistrian region would have more than 20,000 tons of weapons.