“Will cease to exist”: Ukraine war threatens another country – EU candidate country is arming itself. Transnistria's request for help could escalate the conflict between Russia and the Republic of Moldova.
“It is entirely possible that Russia is now seeking further escalation,” said Wolfgang Müller, professor at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna. If Ukraine is defeated and Russia carves out a land corridor to Moldova, Moldova will cease to existence as an independent state, a journalist said.