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Welcome sign leading into Tiraspol, the capital of the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

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Putin’s new Transnistria citizenship decree is about finding more soldiers for war against Ukraine — Moldova’s president

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on 15 May that fast-tracks Russian citizenship for residents of Transnistria.…

byOlena Mukhina

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International

Russia fast-tracks citizenship for Moldova’s occupied Transnistria – a familiar playbook returns

Russia has eased citizenship rules for residents of the Moldovan breakaway region Transnistria, reviving a policy approach previously used in other contested regions.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Ukraine's anti-tank fortifications on the border with Transnistria. Source: The Operation Command West

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Ukraine is building multi-layered shield along border with Russian-occupied Transnistria — 50 km from biggest port city

Russian Troops have been stationed there since 1992.

byOlena Mukhina

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The Hermitage archaeologist Ukraine wanted to try is back in Russia—Kyiv calls it a propaganda gift to Moscow

Five for five at the Belarusian-Polish border. As part of a prisoner swap, a Russian defendant was released six weeks before he was due in Kyiv.

byAlexander Moisseenko

Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Kyiv on the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 26 April 2026. Photo: Ukrainian President's Office

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Ukraine is holding Russian forces away from Moldova, Sandu says

Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited Kyiv for talks with Zelenskyy on security, EU integration, and regional cooperation.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu during an interview. Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS

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“We will use all available methods” — Shoigu threatened Moldova over Transnistria. Available methods are limited: Ukraine is in the way

He invoked the Donbas playbook, warned of intervention to protect 220,000 Russian passport holders, and accused Chișinău of "blockade."

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha.

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Ukraine’s FM meets Moldova’s president in Turkey, briefs her on the front line

Sybiha met Moldova's Sandu in Antalya, briefing her on the front line and Russian strikes, and coordinating on the 14–15 May Council of Europe session in Chișinău on the Special Tribunal.

byMaria Tril

Russian troops stationed in Transnistria, Moldova

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International

Soviet 14th Army’s heirs just became persona non grata in Moldova

Chișinău drew a line on the Dniester.

byOlena Mukhina

Putin dusts off Ukraine playbook for Moldova

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International

Moldova formally exits Russia’s post-Soviet CIS as Sandu signs withdrawal decrees

President Sandu's decrees complete a break that parliament voted through on 2 April.

byBenjamin Murdoch

russia's buffer zone wishlist now includes vinnytsia — moldova's transnistria ukrainian official says · post oblast ukraine news reports

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Russia’s buffer zone wishlist now includes Vinnytsia — via Moldova’s Transnistria, Ukrainian official says

Zelenskyy's office deputy chief Palisa said this is the first time such plans have been recorded, though he stressed Russia currently lacks the forces to act on any of its territorial ambitions.

byYuri Zoria

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“The last thread that keeps us anchored in a toxic, bitter past” — Moldova’s parliament votes to leave the post-Soviet CIS bloc

Parliament backed the denunciation of the founding agreements 60 to 17 on 2 April, with Communists and Socialists the only bloc voting against.

byYuri Zoria

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$10,000 per person: Moldova arrests 11 drivers in Ukrainian male smuggling network

Eleven taxi drivers in Moldova have been detained on suspicion of smuggling roughly 400 Ukrainian men out of the country for fees reaching $10,000 per crossing, Moldova's anti-organised crime prosecutors said.

byMaria Tril

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Moldova court cases reveal Russia’s transnational network to recruit, train and deploy spies and saboteurs

The man who recruited Moldovan citizens for drone training camps in the Balkans also organized the painting of Stars of David on Paris buildings in the days after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks

byMaria Tril

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International

Russia knocks out Moldova–Romania power link in strike on Ukraine

Russia's strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on 23 March cut Moldova's primary link to the European grid

byMaria Tril

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Moldova’s plan for Russian-controlled Transnistria: squeeze it economically, replace the separatist regime with an international administration

The non-paper proposes imposing uniform fiscal rules on Transnistria unilaterally, creating a convergence fund for political concessions, and joining the EU with Transnistria's EU law integration suspended "for a defined period."

byYuri Zoria

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Russia bombed Ukraine’s dam, poisoned Moldova’s river — and now claims Ukraine did it with a fuel truck

Pro-Russian Moldovan media are actively circulating three fake explanations for the Dniester contamination — a fuel truck accident, rocket propellant from Ukrainian air defense, and an allegedly struck Flamingo missile assembly plant.

byYuri Zoria

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Russia hit Ukraine’s hydropower plant eight days ago — and poisoned a river that flows into Moldova

Moldova's Environment Minister said the oil volume in the Dniester already "significantly exceeds" the initially reported 1.5 tonnes.

byYuri Zoria

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International

Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive

A GRU-linked cell embedded in the Russian Embassy is running Moscow's Moldova playbook on Hungarian soil—and the stakes for Ukraine could not be higher

byDaniel Thomas

Arrest of a suspect. Credit: Security Service of Ukraine

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Russia offered $100,000 per kill: Joint Ukrainian-Moldovan operation dismantles assassination network targeting public figures

A defense intelligence spokesperson, a journalist on Russia's "extremist" list, a head of a state enterprise, special operations soldiers, and a pro-Ukrainian Russian activist — these were among at least five people a Russian-directed assassination network planned to kill in Ukraine

byMaria Tril

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EU wants Russia to hold free elections and withdraw troops from Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Transnistria— as part of a Ukraine peace deal, leaked paper shows

The document, circulated by EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas among member states, also calls for nuclear weapons removal from Belarus, reparations, and free elections inside Russia.

byYuri Zoria

Moldova

Putin’s new Transnistria citizenship decree is about finding more soldiers for war against Ukraine — Moldova’s president

Russia fast-tracks citizenship for Moldova’s occupied Transnistria – a familiar playbook returns

Ukraine is building multi-layered shield along border with Russian-occupied Transnistria — 50 km from biggest port city

The Hermitage archaeologist Ukraine wanted to try is back in Russia—Kyiv calls it a propaganda gift to Moscow

Ukraine is holding Russian forces away from Moldova, Sandu says

“We will use all available methods” — Shoigu threatened Moldova over Transnistria. Available methods are limited: Ukraine is in the way

Ukraine’s FM meets Moldova’s president in Turkey, briefs her on the front line

Soviet 14th Army’s heirs just became persona non grata in Moldova

Moldova formally exits Russia’s post-Soviet CIS as Sandu signs withdrawal decrees

Russia’s buffer zone wishlist now includes Vinnytsia — via Moldova’s Transnistria, Ukrainian official says

“The last thread that keeps us anchored in a toxic, bitter past” — Moldova’s parliament votes to leave the post-Soviet CIS bloc

$10,000 per person: Moldova arrests 11 drivers in Ukrainian male smuggling network

Moldova court cases reveal Russia’s transnational network to recruit, train and deploy spies and saboteurs

Russia knocks out Moldova–Romania power link in strike on Ukraine

Moldova’s plan for Russian-controlled Transnistria: squeeze it economically, replace the separatist regime with an international administration

Russia bombed Ukraine’s dam, poisoned Moldova’s river — and now claims Ukraine did it with a fuel truck

Russia hit Ukraine’s hydropower plant eight days ago — and poisoned a river that flows into Moldova

Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive

Russia offered $100,000 per kill: Joint Ukrainian-Moldovan operation dismantles assassination network targeting public figures

EU wants Russia to hold free elections and withdraw troops from Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Transnistria— as part of a Ukraine peace deal, leaked paper shows

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