Agree It s also much closer to Ukrainian spelling Dnister Let s make Dniester a Wikipedia convention Best wishes Names There were too many names in the article I left only the languages which are relevant to the geography nowadays Ukrainian Romanian Russian and Latin as it can be found on many older maps and I removed Polish Dniestr Yiddish nester Serbian Dnjester Invaders and defenders It would be neutral to say During the war battles were fought on the banks of the river between the German and Romanian invaders and the Soviet defenders This does not imply any value judgment It is an objective statement because an invader is someone coming from the outside and trying to take over the territory whereas a defender is someone who wants to prevent that from happening and who is already there If we need to clarify we can specify the left bank of the river On the right bank the Romanians would not be invaders since they already held that territory The Dniester was an international border at the time Separating Moldova from Transnistria NPOV I m concerned that it is inaccurate to say the Dniester separates Moldova from Transnistria First there is the region s overall controversial status secondly there are certain areas on the left bank where Moldova has defacto dejure control I have rephrased the statement to make up for this shortcoming after which it flows through Moldova for 398 km separating most of it from Transnistria Feel free to make suggestions for a more eloquent way of expressing this