Government warns unnamed forces are stoking tensions in Russian-speaking breakaway region of Transnistria
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Moldova is facing “a very dangerous new moment”, the country’s deputy prime minister has said, as he warned that unnamed forces were seeking to stoke tensions after a series of explosions in the breakaway region of Transnistria this week.
In a briefing with journalists, Nicu Popescu said his government had seen “a dangerous deterioration of the situation” in recent days, following grenade attacks on the “ministry of security” in the breakaway region of Transnistria on Monday. The attacks with rocket-propelled grenades represented “a very dangerous new moment in the history of our region,” he said, adding that Moldova’s institutions had been put on high alert in response.
