Original sentence: 10 cities and towns, and 69 communes are controlled by the Separatist authorities.Conflict often errupted when the separatist authorities prevented the villagers from reaching their farmland east of the road.In addition, on the west bank, the city of Tighina (Bender) and six villages to its south and south-east, roughly opposite Tiraspol, are controlled by Transnistria.Nine localities on the left bank, the population of which refused to accept the separtist government in 1992, are controlled by the Moldovan government, as part of the Dubăsari district.The nine localities controlled by the central authorities of Moldova on the eastern bank, the city of Dubăsari (situated on the eastern bank and controlled by Tiraspol), the seven localities controlled by the Transnistrian authorities on the western bank, as well as two (Varniţa and Copanca) on the same bank under Chişinău control form a security zone
Edited sentence: Nine localities on the left bank are controlled by the Moldovan government, as part of the Dubăsari district.On the west bank, the city of Tighina (Bender) and six villages to its south and south-east, roughly opposite Tiraspol, are controlled by Transnistria.The nine localities controlled by Moldova on the eastern bank, the city of Dubăsari (situated on the eastern bank and controlled by Tiraspol), the seven localities controlled by Transnistria on the western bank, as well as two (Varniţa and Copanca) on the same bank under Chişinău control form a security zone