Transnistria: the breakaway republic in the Kremlin’s sights

Russian general says Moscow aims to create a ‘corridor’ across southern Ukraine to Transnistria

Transnistria
Transnistria has been described as ‘a land lost to time’
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Trouble is stirring in the “invisible republic” of Transnistria, said Tonia Mastrobuoni in La Repubblica (Rome).

Transnistria was created during the collapse of the USSR, when a largely Russian-speaking enclave in eastern Moldova, between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border, declared itself independent from the young Moldovan republic. Russia sent in troops to back the separatists. A brief war ended in deadlock, which left the territory and its 500,000 or so people in limbo.

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