A 1989 law that made Moldovan an official language added to the tension and the region broke away in September 1990. The breakaway territory's paramilitary forces took over Moldovan public ...

A brief explainer of everything you need to know about the region, its worsening crisis and why it all matters to the rest of Europe.

A proposal by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukrainian coal should be supplied to Transnistria for electricity generation is “speculative”, according to Vadim Krasnoselsky, leader of Transnistria, ...

Like their Moldovan counterparts, Ukrainian officials have denied any plan in Kyiv to attack Transnistria, where Ukrainian has been established as one of three official languages alongside Russian ...

The electricity supply system in the Russian-occupied Moldovan region of Transnistria is under risk of collapse after the halt of Russian gas flow, a high-ranking official of Moldova’s Energy ...

The cessation of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine has halted all industrial activity in Moldova's Russian-occupied Transnistria, Sergey Obolonik, the first deputy chairman of the Transnistrian ...

On 9 December, Vadim Krasnoselsky, the leader of the unrecognised Transnistria, signed a decree declaring an economic emergency due to the potential disruption in Russian gas supplies to the province.

The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.

Transnistria has cut off heating and hot water to households after Russia suspended gas transit through Ukraine, leaving the region facing a humanitarian crisis.

A 1989 law that made Moldovan an official language added to the tension and the region broke away in September 1990. The breakaway territory's paramilitary forces took over Moldovan public ...