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Transnistria: The next front of the Ukraine war

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    5th May, 2022

Context

As Russia’s war of attrition grinds away in eastern Ukraine, Moscow seems to be opening a new front on Ukraine’s western border, in the Transnistria region of Moldova.

About Transnistria

  • Transnistria is officially called the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
  • Transnistria, a small, breakaway region of Moldova, is sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine along its southwestern border. 
    • Both Transnistria and Moldova are directly west of Ukraine. 
  • It is home to about 500,000 people. 
  • It is an unrecognized breakaway state that left Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. 

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