Colbasna

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Colbasna (in Moldovan; in Russian: Kolbasna) is a small town in northern Transnistria, located less than 2 kilometres from the Ukrainian border and in the Administrative Region of Camenca. It is also the site of a former ammunition depot of the former Soviet Union, today guarded by Joint Control Commission troops made up of three nationalities.

The majority of the ammunition has by now been removed from Colbasna under OSCE supervision.[1]. Military equipment which was unpractical to remove has undergone on-site destruction as per Moldovan demands that the "weapons dump" of Transnistria be removed. The U.S. State Department recognizes that the process of removal of Russian munitions and equipment has been carried out with efficiency since 2003.[2]