Moldova counted 39 Russian drone incursions in eight months, against 17 in all of 2025
Its president says three decades without air defense cannot be undone in five years.
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Russia brings children from Moldova’s Transnistria to occupied Crimea for “patriotic education”
Schools in the Russia-backed enclave now begin each week with separatist flag ceremonies. Rights activists say children as young as 11 train with weapons and drones.
One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
The drone crossed Moldova twice that afternoon, and controllers shut the airspace over the center of the country for more than an hour, until after it came down in the north.
Moldova is investing in air defense against the Russian drones crossing from Ukraine—Romania shoots down the ones that reach it
Allied fighters over the neighboring NATO member have destroyed intruding drones repeatedly this year, while the neutral country in between can track them crossing but not shoot them down.
Russia’s cultural center shuts down in Moldova as Chișinău cuts another Moscow link
The Russian House in Chișinău ceased operations after Moldova ended the bilateral agreement governing the center, the latest step in the country's efforts to reduce Russian influence.
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.
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.
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.
“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."
Soviet 14th Army’s heirs just became persona non grata in Moldova
Chișinău drew a line on the Dniester.
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.
“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.
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."
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.
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Russia eyes Moldova’s Transnistria as new threat axis toward Odesa, says Ukrainian intelligence
Sources say Moscow is fueling military buildup and deploying agents in Moldova’s Russian-backed enclave to pressure Ukraine.
Moldova drafting Transnistria reintegration plan with Western partners, but keeping details under wraps
Old international formats collapsed; Moldova and Transnistria now talk directly.
Moldova shuts Moscow’s propaganda pipeline in middle of its capital, ending 1998 deal
Foreign Minister Popșoi calls the closure a calculated act of defense.
Russia claims French, British troops arrived in Odesa to target Transnistria as Sandu warns of Moldova-based assault on Ukraine
The unsubstantiated allegations mirror tactics used before Russia's 2014 Crimea annexation, creating manufactured pretexts for potential invasion from Moldova's region occupied by Russian forces.
Hudson Institute lists Russia’s eight most fragile military arteries Ukraine could sever next to break the stalemate
A new report highlights targets ranging from Crimean bridges to drone factories that sustain Moscow’s war effort. Analysts argue that striking these weak points could paralyze Russia’s logistics and increase the cost of occupation.