A memorial event commemorating 30 years of the Bendery tragedy took place on June 19, the Day of Memory and Sorrow, at the monument to soldiers-internationalists near Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast.
More than 30 soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of Bendery, the militia, fighters of the Territorial Rescue Squad and Cossacks, who in 1990-1992 defended Pridnestrovie from the aggression of the Republic of Moldova, participated in the event.
The Head of the PMR Official Representation in the Russian Federation Leonid Manakov, on behalf of President of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky, expressed on this day profound gratitude to those who participated in the defense of Pridnestrovie: combat veterans, Cossacks, the Women’s Strike Committee representatives.
“It is owing to these people, June 19 was not only a day of tragedy, but also a day of glory for the Pridnestrovian people. Everyone who could hold a gun stood up to defend their homeland. They defended their people, the right to speak their native language and not the Romanian language, to live as our fathers and grandfathers bequeathed – the generation of victors that defeated Nazi Germany and believed that fascism was done with forever,” stressed Leonid Manakov.
The participants honored the memory of the fallen with a minute of silence and laid flowers to the monument to Defenders of the Fatherland.
On the instructions of the President, the Head of the PMR Official Representation presented combat veterans Mikhail Mishkoya and Dmitry Kambur with the PMR decorations “For the Contribution to the Development of International Relations”.
