Moldova's foreign minister, Nicu Popescu, told Sky News the future of his country and Europe depends on how the war in Ukraine ends
"And now, of course, we see that the situation is getting worse… in the last few days, with some explosions taking place in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, we are also increasingly affected by this regional destabilisation."
"We don't know. Legally the Transnistrian region part of Moldova, [but] de facto our authorities don't have control. So we don't control, we don't have access to CCTV cameras, to forensics. We have some working hypothesis, but we are not in a situation to attribute clear responsibility for these attacks."
Around 1,000 Russian troops have been based, ostensibly as peacekeepers, in the unrecognised republic since it broke away from Moldova in 1992.On preparations for a possible Russian incursion into Transnistria or even into the rest of Moldova, Mr Popescu said:"Statements such as the one made by this Russian general are really worrying.
He was more nuanced on how neutrality is compatible with self-defence but wouldn't be drawn on whether Moldova would ask for western military support.
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