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Some Moldovan politicians, such as former Minister of Defence Vitalie Marinuța, have suggested joining NATO as part of a larger European integration.The current Prime Minister of Moldova, Dorin Recean, supports European Union membership, but not NATO membership, [10] as did his predecessor Natalia Gavrilița, and her Party of Action and Solidarity. [11]
On Thursday, Russia accused Kyiv of planning to invade Transdniestria, which borders Ukraine. The mainly Russian-speaking territory broke from Moldova's control in 1990, a year before the collapse ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing on with his war in Ukraine, and some NATO members have expressed concerns that Russia might look to invade other countries next.. The alliance was ...
Some other Russian soldiers also participate in the Joint Control Commission between Moldova, Russia and Transnistria since 1992. The Government of Moldova currently views the presence of Russian troops in Moldova as illegitimate and has repeatedly called for their withdrawal and replacement by international forces. Russia, however, has opposed ...
It has thus been theorized that a new war in Transnistria could see Romanian involvement, which is especially notable considering that Romania is a NATO member. [51] During the Transnistria War between Russian-backed Transnistria and Moldova in 1992, Romania supported Moldova with military advisors, volunteers and weaponry. [52]
Last week, Russia sent the United States a list of its demands for defusing the crisis: a binding promise that Ukraine will never become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, plus ...
Transnistria is a territory that separated itself from Moldova due to fear of a possible unification of the latter with Romania. This sparked the Transnistria War, in which Russian-backed Transnistria managed to stay separate from Moldova. Despite this, today Transnistria is legally and internationally considered part of Moldova.
Moldovan, U.S., and European officials have said that after Moldova was officially granted EU membership candidate status in 2022, Russia began conducting a hybrid war against Moldova with the goal of replacing the pro-Western Moldovan government with a pro-Russian one, [1] [2] this following on from the pro-Russian president Igor Dodon losing his re-election bid in late 2020, triggering ...