The think tank said the Kremlin considered Transnistria as a tool to execute hybrid war operations against Moldova and Ukraine, as well as to destabilize NATO.

The war next door has kick-started the process. Transnistria has survived as a statelet thanks to smuggling and cheap Russian gas.

Wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, the breakaway republic of Transnistria holds fast to its Russian roots but wants to stay out of the war on Ukraine.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has had a profound effect on Transnistria’s economy. Ukraine closed its border with Transnistria when the war began, cutting off about a quarter of the enclave’s trade.

A memorial in Chișinău, Moldova, to the victims of the Transnistria War, which was fought in the early 1990s between pro-Russian separatists and the Moldovan government. (Svetlana Shkolnikova ...

Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has not been going according to plan. Russia's aggression could even inadvertently bring an end to the Transnistria conflict in neighboring Moldova.

After a short war in the early 1990s, Transnistria declared independence from Moldova, where today’s pro-Western government has firmly opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine.

Provides an overview of Transnistria, including key facts about this breakaway region of Moldova.

A decades-long Russian-Ukrainian transit gas deal to Europe ended on Jan. 1. For now, the most acute effects are being felt in a region called Transnistria, on the eastern edge of Moldova.

According to Dirun, the war has rocked Transnistria’s economy “but also forced the leadership of Transnistria to take a more restrained position” and “not demonstrate its pro-Russian views”.

Moldovan director Ion Bors' debut is set against the backdrop of the little-remembered Transnistria War and takes place in the dying days of the USSR.