Temperatures in Transnistria’s capital city of Tiraspol are set to plunge to minus 1 degree Celcius on Wednesday night. Transnistria declared a 30-day economic emergency last month in ...

Sources consulted in Tiraspol and in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital ... provide support to Transnistria or access to that territory without first conquering the Ukrainian city of Odesa.

Germany and the EU can celebrate an initial victory in their tussle with Russia for influence over the de facto republic of Transnistria, which seceded from the Republic of Moldova in the early 1990s.