Posted on 09/02/2022 4:12:14 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
-Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Moldova on Thursday that threatening the security of Russian troops in the breakaway region of Transdniestria risked triggering military confrontation with Moscow.
Russia has stationed peacekeeping troops in Transdniestria since the early 1990s, when an armed conflict saw pro-Russian separatists wrest most of the region from Moldovan control.
The government in Chisinau, stressing it was committed to peaceful dialogue over the future of the region, said it would summon the acting Russian ambassador to make clear its position.
Russia says its army is there to maintain peace and stability, but Moldova wants Moscow to withdraw its forces.
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I’ve been wondering when Putin would play the Moldova card.
Blah blah blah...
By December, the Russians will have pulled out their 1950s tanks from depot storage, and attempt to use them in their ‘special operation’.
Was Moldova originally part of Romania?
I should know this but I can’t remember.
Russia is getting their ass kicked in Ukraine. Threatening little Moldova is more of a speed of this “global superpower”.
You remember correctly. The Soviet Union invaded and occupied it. They created “Moldovan Language” which is just Romanian language written with Cyrillic letters.
Then after the collapse of the Soviet Empire they invaded that part called Moldova again and created a new tiny region Transnistria, that is basically the riverside between Ukraine and Moldova.
It’s a mafia state under the iron fist of the Russia-appointed underboss.
It’s gone back and forth since the early 19th century.
Sure looks like Putin is going to widen the war. Moldova should have cited with NATO instead of being an isolated monarchy.
Was Moldova originally part of Romania?
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