According to an agency report, the breakaway Moldovan province of Transnistria has called on Russia to increase its armed forces due to growing security risks there.
“As long as Russia’s peacekeeping mission continues, Moldova will not be able to implement military plans and preparations against Transnistria,” said the region’s envoy in Moscow, Leonid Manakov, today, according to the official Russian agency RIA.
“Transnistria has repeatedly asked for an increase in Russian peacekeeping forces.” This is also justified given the deterioration in the security situation.
Moldova does not recognize breakaway province
Moldova does not recognize the breakaway province as such and has not agreed to the stationing of Russian troops. Nevertheless, the government in Moscow has sent hundreds of soldiers to Ukraine’s neighboring country.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a civil war broke out between pro-Russian separatists and Moldovan government troops. After the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Moldova’s relations with the government in Moscow have hit rock bottom. The small country is increasingly oriented towards Europe and has been an EU accession candidate since last summer.
