Moldova has urged Moscow to stop recruiting its citizens into the Russian armed forces, in a statement published by Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.
The small former Soviet country’s eastern region—along its border with Ukraine—has been controlled by pro-Russian separatists since Moldova’s declaration of independence in 1991. The region, known as Transnistria, or Pridnestrovie in Russian, has functioned under an internationally unrecognized pro-Russian government for over two decades.
Similar to other pro-Russian separatist regions in the former Soviet Union, such as Georgia’s South Ossetia and Ukraine’s Donbass, Transnistria cooperates closely with Russia’s armed forces. Russia has around 1,500 …read more
Source: Newsweek
