Transnistria War

Transnistria War
	Part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Transnistria conflict
	; Separatist forces during the Battle of Bender
Date	2 November 1990 – 21 July 1992; (1 year, 8 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Main phase: 2 March – 21 July 1992 (4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Location	Transnistria, Moldova
Result	Russian–Transnistrian victory Transnistria is a de facto independent state, but remains internationally recognized as part of Moldova;
Belligerents
/ Moldova Supported by: Romania	Transnistria; Russia; Supported by:; Ukraine;
Commanders and leaders
Mircea Snegur; Valeriu Muravschi; Ion Costaș; Pavel Creangă; Tudor Dabija-Cazarov; Constantin Antoci; Nicolae Chirtoacă; Leonid Carasev; Boris Muravschi;	Igor Smirnov; Andrey Manoylov; Vladimir Rilyakov; Ștefan Chițac; Nikolay Lepkhov; Vladimir Atamaniuk; Fedor Dobrov; Yuri Grosul; Vladimir Antyufeyev; Tom Zenovich; Boris Yeltsin; Alexander Lebed; Yuri Netkachev; Dmytro Korchynsky;
Units involved
Armed Forces; Ministry of Internal Affairs Police; ; Popular Front of Moldova Pro-Moldovan Transnistrian volunteers; ; Romanian volunteers; and military advisors;	Armed Forces Republican Guard; Ministry of Interior Militsiya; Russian Armed Forces 14th Guards Army (elements); Russian volunteers Don Cossacks; Kuban CMS; Orenburg Cossacks; Union of Cossacks; RNU; Gagauz volunteers/ Ukrainian volunteers UNA-UNSO (aimed to make Transnistria part of Ukraine);
Casualties and losses
	316–637 civilians killed in total

The Transnistria War (Romanian: Războiul din Transnistria; Russian: Война в Приднестровье, romanized: Voyna v Pridnestrovye) was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari between pro-Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, PMR) forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and neo-Cossack units, which were supported by elements of the Russian 14th Army, and pro-Moldovan forces, including Moldovan troops and police.

Fighting intensified on 1 March 1992 and, alternating with ad hoc ceasefires, lasted throughout the spring and early summer of 1992 until a ceasefire was declared on 21 July 1992, which has held. The conflict is sometimes known as the Moldovan-Russian war (Romanian: Războiul moldo-rus) in Moldova and Romania.