Russia wants to deploy 10,000 troops in the separatist Transnistria region on Ukraine’s border and aims to install a pro-Kremlin government in Moldova to do so, the country’s prime minister said.
Moscow has a small number of soldiers in Transnistria, which has been controlled by separatists in a frozen conflict for 33 years. With the conclave landlocked between Ukraine and a pro-EU government in Moldova, however, Russia is currently unable to send more troops there.
But Moldova’s prime minister Dorin Recean told the Financial Times that Russia is meddling in the country’s upcoming parliamentary election in September, in the hope that a more friendly future government would allow it to deploy more soldiers.
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