President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to Russia's decision to simplify the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of the unrecognized Transnistria region and instructed Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to engage with Moldova on joint actions.
Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu believes that the Kremlin's decision to simplify the process of obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of the unrecognized Transnistria region may be linked to an attempt to recruit more soldiers for the war in Ukraine.
The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has uncovered an organized criminal group in the Odesa region that was engaged in the illegal smuggling of men subject to military service to the unrecognized Transnistria.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu believes Russia may provoke an even greater crisis in Transnistria in order to destabilize Moldova ahead of parliamentary elections this fall and influence public votes on the left bank of the Dniester.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that due to its ongoing war against Ukraine, Russia has been forced to withdraw a significant portion of its military contingent from Transnistria.
The Russian contingent on the territory of unrecognized Transnistria does not pose a threat. Ukraine has full information about its concentration and quantitative composition.
Local deputies from the unrecognized Transnistria appealed to the Russian Federation Council and the State Duma with a request to implement measures to protect the self-proclaimed republic amid what they called an "increasing pressure from Moldova."
The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine has not yet confirmed the information that the deputies of the unrecognized Transnistria may appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin and ask for Russian membership.
Potential mobilized began to actively leave the territory of the so-called “Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic” (PMR). Andriy Yusov, a representative of .....
Any action that will threaten Ukraine from Transnistria, the temporarily occupied territory of Moldova, will receive an appropriate response; however regional destabilization should be avoided.