MOSCOW (Portal) – The Kremlin said on Monday it was concerned about the situation in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, where Ukraine and other European countries were stirring up the situation.
Last week Moscow told the West it would view any actions threatening Russian peacekeepers in Transnistria as an attack on Russia itself, a warning amid rising concerns in Moldova, a small former Soviet republic sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, about a possible attack was announced Russian threat.
Moldova’s pro-European President Maia Sandu this month accused Moscow of plotting a coup, which Russia denied.
“Of course, the situation in Transnistria is the subject of our greatest attention and a cause for our concern,” Peskov told reporters. “The situation is unsettled, it is being provoked, provoked from outside.
“But we know that our opponents in the Ukrainian regime, in the Kiev regime, but also in European countries are capable of various types of provocations.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Moscow’s claims that Ukraine wants to take over the region, while Moldova laments that the claims are unfounded.
Vadim Krasnoselsky, the self-proclaimed president of Transnistria, had previously described the situation in the region as tense but urged people to remain calm and said that citizens would be informed immediately should any danger emerge, Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency said reported.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldierkin and Jake Cordell; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Kevin Liffey)