The Russian foreign minister continued by criticizing the Moldovan government in Chisinau of refusing to resume the 5+2 negotiations on resolving the Transnistria conflict. Russia and the separatist regime in Transnistria, a pro-Russian breakaway region that split from Moldova in the early 1990s after a bloody war, insist that talks should continue, especially considering the setbacks of the Russian army in Ukraine. At the end of January, the Moldovan president said that there was a “serious discussion” about her country’s capacity to defend itself and whether it should be part of a “larger alliance” in an interview with the US magazine Politico. Why is Moldova dragging itself into this war ?
