Moldova Worried That Russia Won't Stop at Ukraine
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The Trends Journal has long stated that the Ukraine War will continue to expand and ensnare more countries as the war drags on. There has been no talk of peace and Kyiv is now talking about reclaiming land that has been taken over by Russia. These fighters insist that the new advanced missiles from the U.S. are a game-changer and could help Ukraine reclaim areas like Kherson by September.
Natalia Gavrilița, Moldova’s prime minister, said in an interview with CNN on Sunday that there are new concerns in her country that Moscow will expand its aims to include war with Chișinău.
“It’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but if the military actions move further into the southwestern part of Ukraine and toward Odessa, then of course we are very worried,” she said.
Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, said in an interview with state media last week that Russia’s military is no longer “only” focused on the eastern part of Ukraine. He implied that Moscow’s strategy has changed after Western intervention with longer-range weapons.
He told Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT, that Moscow cannot allow the remaining region of Ukraine controlled by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces to “possess weapons that would pose a direct threat to our territory.
“The geography is different now,” he said. He now named Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as new objectives, the report said.
Transnistria is an unrecognized breakaway state that is internationally recognized as part of Moldova. It is now established that Russia hopes to establish total control of the Donbas and southern Ukraine and could further seize land would give Moscow access to Transnistria in Moldova, which is comprised of Russian-backed separatists.
The New York Times described Transnistria as “a thin sliver of territory that is controlled by at least 12,000 separatists and Russian troops.” The paper said the government in Moldova has been concerned about the territory after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We are very worried, especially considering that troops are on the territory of the secessionist Transnistria region,” the prime minister said. “We are doing everything possible to maintain peace and stability and to ensure that the fighting does not escalate.”
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Moldova is tiny — about the size of Maryland— poor, and has a population of fewer than three million. Russia claims that separatists are being mistreated there.
“No one should be fooled by the Kremlin's announcements," Jalina Porter, a U.S. State Department spokesperson, said. Moldova, a former Soviet republic, is not a member of the European Union or NATO. (Ukraine was not a full member of NATO.)
The West and Moldova have rejected Russia’s claim that these separatists are being mistreated.
The Odessa-Journal reported that authorities of unrecognized Transnistria are aiming to secede from Moldova and join Russia. Vitaly Ignatiev, the so-called Foreign Minister of Transnistria, said on 22 July that Tiraspol’s external vector remains unchanged.