Final month’s declaration by the breakaway Moldovan area of Transniestria that it needed to hitch Russia, coupled with a spike in nameless bomb threats in Chișinău, seemed like “a type of prelude to an operation in Moldova”, Oleg Serebrian, Moldova’s deputy prime minister, informed The Instances. Transniestria hosts at the very least 1,500 Russian troops. Russia-friendly separatists in Moldova’s Gagauzia area have additionally begun calling to separate away.
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