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.
