Pentagon: If Kiev loses the war, NATO will have to fight against Russia. Putin: Western countries must remember that Moscow also possesses "weapons capable of reaching their territories" The warning was pronounced by the Russian president in his annual speech on the state of the nation before the assembled Houses.

But one topic was conspicuous by its total absence in the more than two hours of his speech, interrupted by 80 rounds of applause: Transnistria, the secessionist entity on Moldovan territory.