President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Russian ruler Vladimir Putin not to continue the war into 2027 and 2028.

With Putin’s latest decree simplifying access to Russian citizenship for Transnistrians, concerns are resurfacing over how Moscow could weaponize the small enclave inside Moldova based on past precedents – both as a bargaining chip and source of ...

Transnistria, a narrow breakaway region between Moldova and Ukraine, has survived since the early 1990s with its own currency, army, parliament and Soviet-style symbols. But the war in Ukraine cut off key trade routes,

I’ve been on holiday to a country that doesn’t officially exist. It has its own border, passport, flag, currency and army but no one recognizes it – not

The Russian army is now losing ground in Ukraine for the first time since January 2024. As one top retired British Army commander told me several hours ago: “Ukraine might actually have a path to something that might look like a victory.

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 25 October 2024 The separatist region of Transnistria or Trans-Dniester - a narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border - broke away from Moldova in 1990. The ...

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