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.

Ukraine — a legacy of a less divided Europe that no longer exists. For now, the crisis is focused in a region called Transnistria, located on the eastern edge of the former Soviet republic of ...

With temperatures dipping below freezing this week in Moldova's Russian-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, the end of an agreement to ship natural gas from Russia through Ukraine has led to ...

Demilitarization of the Transnistrian region is one of the main conditions for the settlement of this conflict. This was ...

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 ...

Industrial production has screeched to a halt in Transnistria after Russian gas flows were halted. The breakaway region of Moldova is heavily dependent on cheap Russian gas flowing via Ukraine.

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, ...

the spy reported to his handler — the ‘deputy defense minister of Transnistria,’ who collaborates with Russia’s GRU,” the statement read. Read also: Ukrainian space agency official ...

The Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria has started turning the gas taps off ahead of the expiry of a gas transit deal between Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz after Volodymyr ...

Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria has cut off the supply of heating and hot water to households after Russia suspended the transit of natural gas via Ukraine at the start of the year.

Russian intelligence said earlier this week that Moldova’s President Maia Sandu was planning a military operation in Transnistria, which borders Ukraine. Sandu was sworn in for her second term ...