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They are being interrogated to gather information about military facilities and the Ukrainian border with the separatist enclave. They are also regularly forced to work as freelancers and informants for the FSB, threatened with deportation to Ukraine if they refuse to cooperate. Read also: Zelenskyy and Sandu discuss situation in unrecognized “Transnistria” “Such hostile actions once again demonstrate that the PMR [Transnistria] is not independent and is in fact a territory occupied by the Russian armed forces, so we urge Ukrainians not to visit the ‘republic,’ regardless of the legality of th…