Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean has stated that Russia seeks to deploy 10,000 troops in the separatist Transnistria region of Moldova and to establish a pro-Kremlin government in Chișinău. Source ...

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Russia is seeking to deploy up to 10,000 troops in Moldova’s separatist Transnistria region should the pro-EU authorities lose the parliamentary elections scheduled for ...

Moscow has a small number of soldiers in Transnistria, which has been controlled by separatists in a frozen conflict for 33 years. With the enclave landlocked between Ukraine and a pro-EU government ...

Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean has warned that Vladimir Putin wants to install a puppet government in the country so it can strengthen Russia’s hold on the breakaway region of Transnistria.

Before the parliamentary elections in Moldova, russia may provoke an even greater crisis in the unrecognized Transnistria in ...

"All these years, Russia has been using the residents of Transnistria and can provoke an even greater crisis at any moment," ...

Ukraine cannot decide on its own to send its troops to the unrecognized Transnistria in Moldova, but at the same time, it would be desirable for Moldova to resolve the issue of the presence of russian ...

especially since it is wedged between Moldova and Ukraine and is home to a military base with 1,500 Russian troops. WHY HAS TRANSNISTRIA CAUSED ALARM? A large majority of Transnistria’s 470,000 ...

Moldova has repeatedly called for withdrawal of the Russian troops and removal of the arms from Cobasna. A pull-out began in 2001 but was halted when Transnistria blocked the dispatch of weapons.

He also said that Russian troops currently deployed in Transnistria "are not trained and equipped for offensive operations and would not be able to move against the rest of Moldova without ...

Zelenskyy mentioned in his speech that Russia had withdrawn part of its contingent from Transnistria during the full-scale war, and whereas there were 5,500-6,000 troops there before, there are now ...