The United Nations secretary-general has met with Moldova’s president as Russia’s war on neighboring Ukraine has seen tensions rise in a breakaway region of Moldova.
A statement issued after the meeting said U.N. chief António Guterres offered President Maia Sandu; “his support for the full respect for Moldova’s independence sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Mysterious explosions have struck Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region; raising concerns about the war in Ukraine spreading into a western front as Russia targets the Ukrainian city of Odesa with missiles.
Transnistria hosts some 1,500 Russian troops and other forces. Pro-Russian forces broke off the border section from Moldova in 1992; and Russian troops have been stationed there since, ostensibly as peacekeepers.
