Moldova
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Moldova’s Moscow-backed separatist region of Transnistria extended its state of emergency today for another month as it grapples with an energy crisis after losing access to Russian gas supplies that had propped up its economy for decades. Russia’s Gazprom suspended gas exports to Transnistria on 1 January, citing unpaid Moldovan debts of $709m (£580m). Moldova…
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More than 51,000 households have been left without gas and 1,500 apartment buildings have no heat in Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist enclave, authorities report. Transnistria, a mainly Russian-speaking separatist region along the Ukrainian border, had received Russian gas via Ukraine for decades, using it to generate electricity. But that gas was cut off along with flows…
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Moldova has summoned the Russian ambassador over two Russian drones which fell in Moldovan territory at the weekend. Chisnau said the two “decoy” drones used to try and confuse Ukrainian air defences violated its airspace and crashed deep inside its territory on Sunday. They were found in the northern village of Borosenii Noi and the southern…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pressed on with changes to officials close to him and dismissed two deputy heads of his office and appointed a former top security official ambassador to neighbouring Moldova. A presidential decree announced the dismissal of Andriy Smyrnov, who was responsible for legal policy matters, and Oleksiy Dniprov, who headed the office’s “apparatus”. …
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A Russian drone crossed the border with Moldova overnight and flew for “several tens of kilometres” before entering Ukraine’s airspace, the Ukrainian military has claimed. The route was “provocatively directed” by Russian forces “along a trajectory crossing the Ukrainian-Moldovan section of the state border in the Odesa region”, Ukraine’s southern defence forces said in a Telegram post.…
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