Gennady Chorba, a politician in Transnistria, which borders Ukraine, has said the rebel government will submit its request to the Kremlin on Wednesday during a special congress that last met in 2006.
Western analysts believe the development is part of Moscow’s “hybrid warfare” campaign to destabilise Europe.
# ‘Imminent political crisis’
The US-based Institute for the Study of War said Putin was trying to ramp up tension in Transnistria to create an “imminent political crisis” in Moldova, a former Soviet state that wants to join the EU.
Russia keeps roughly 2,000 soldiers in Transnistria and there were concerns in 2022 that the Kremlin could use it to open a second front after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Concrete machine gun posts facing Transnistria dot Ukraine’s western border.
However, Ukrainian officials are sceptical that Putin wants to formally annex Transnistria, a sentiment backed up by analysts in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital.
“Somebody may have ordered this to provoke tensions, to provoke reactions and it’s worked,” he said.
Alexandru Flenchea, a former Moldovan deputy prime minister and a former chief negotiator on Transnistria, said the statement may have been ordered by local businessmen who effectively run Transnistria as their fiefdom, because they want to derail EU customs integration with Moldova.
Am i the only one sick of reading russia wanting to fagocitate any bloody region?
This will mark the end of Transnistria because then Ukraine is allowed to attack them…
The moment you ask another country to annex your country you are no longer a separatist, you are a colonialist.
I absolutely hate them
Just like Chechnya also “asked”
Now this is something really bad.
Putin tells separatists to ask him to annex them*
They’re likely desperate.
I expect Romanian right now. 😂
We really don’t need it. We only care about Moldova.
inb4 russia threatens to nuke anyone attacking transnistria
Why doesn’t Ukraine attack them? It would be a big propaganda boost to remove an entire Russian separatist state.
Moldovan Separatists request extinction. FTFY
Technically how do they imagine this? Moldova is a landlocked country between Romania and Ukraine.
Holy shit
Here we go again
Lol do they realise that the moment they do, they are at war with Ukraine and will probably be de-Russified pretty fast imo because they can’t afford a new front in the east.
As if Russia hasn’t been trying to do this for years. If they could they would. Right now the MIGHTY RUSSIAN MILITARY is getting their asses handed to them by Ukraine, who is showing the world what a little bitch they really are. The chances of Russia being able to do anything about annexing another country right now, on anything but paper, are zero.
“Separatists”
All 5 of them?
Russia already has a massive base there and more or less controls it already. Guess this would just make it de jure rather than de facto.
Strip him off of his citizenship, pay him for his real estate and send him out of country.
One of the reasonable options for Moldova would be to ask Ukraine to occupy that territory at least temporarly.
Pro-russians just creamed themselves at this news lol, they think that the soldiers in Transnistria will capture Odessa lmao
Dear Moldovan separatists,
Please move to Russia. You can be one with the Russkie Mir. They have more than enough space and resources to both accommodate and employ you. You can even get a permanent job overnight with a whopping salary of $3000 each and every month working on the front line. Russia has some major demographic issues that you can help them out with. It’s win – win.
There’s no point living in Moldova if your heart is in being part of Russia. Don’t be limp soft and flaccid. Don’t wait for Russia to come to you – you go to Russia. You’ll love it – it’ll be non-stop thrills and spills.
But, if you decide to stay – for whatever reason, then maybe STFU and accept you’re Moldovans in Moldova and be peaceful and happy there.
How exactly would that even be possible? Transnistria borders Ukraine not Russia, dumb russians being dumb as usual
Poor buggers think Putin will put them in charge then, instead of his own cronies.
Don’t they have a huge stock of ammunition in that region?
Well, that should speed up the whole Moldova joins Romania in the EU process, rather than letting it fester for much longer.
“Moldovan separatists” got their thing on 1992. Now we are talking about “Transnistria separatists”.
Hey, I’ve seen this movie in 2008, 2014 and 2022.
I’m kinda tired of the reruns, can we get SOF on the ground and wipe Transnitria?
Well then leave moldova and move to russia ffs
Transnistria is not Moldova and it will never be. It’s just a tumor attached to Moldova by the soviets after it has been conquered from Romania just to control it better.
They are de facto independent. Moldova should just leave them alone since Moldova finishes at the Nistru. The only issue is that if you give Transnistria the right to self-determination you need to give it to Gagauzia too and that’s a problem.
Many people here don’t even know what Transnistria and Moldova are and they’re just farting propaganda (Pro West or Pro Russian).
Time for Moldova to join Romania, Putler can’t annex part of a NATO country
The West has slowed ammunition transfers to Ukraine, and soldiers are low on ammo. Looks like another front could open, in that entire area.
The American Republican Party intends to block Ukraine Aid until putin makes significant gains, or destroys most of Ukraine. Moldova will recieve a share of putins missiles, destroying their infrastructure, to try and get the country to capitulate.
Well, Putin does need fresh meat for the grinder. I suppose the so-called MPs will volunteer for the front.
He’s a traitor.
Traitors gets…i would like to say something else but let’s go with “put in prison”.
That guy should be imprisoned, with anyone saying the same shit, 5 minutes after he has said it.
Well, Moldova is a NATO member.
That’s not gonna happen.
EDIT: They are a member of North Atlantic Cooperation Council and not of NATO. My bad. Their constitution mandates neutrality between Russia and the NATO. So, they can’t join NATO.
I’ve travel to Transnistria multiple times, and I can confirm it’s a shithole that no one will miss either way.
Dude put on his prettiest dress bent over calling for daddy Putin to come take him. Pathetic
Same Russian rhetoric. Encourage minor population in the other country and invade.
How is that separate.
Yeah I’m sure this isn’t all orchestrated by Putin
Did anyone think Putin would stop with Georgia? Or Ukraine? Here is the next country he wants.
I remember another little man who just wanted some small areas…
Separatism, european cancer since 1945
Misleading title.
The article’s title is “Moldovan separatists to ask putin to annex the region”… It’s allegedly going to happen on February 28, one day prior to putin speech.
Put those retards that are saying this on a train, plane, bus and send them into Russia – ofcourse while canceling their citizenship. Bye bye problem solved
Russia dominates the information space, fascism is on the rise!
See, Trump, Orban, no this … Prepare for WW3, lazy democrats!!!!
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***The Telegraph reports:***
Pro-Russia rebels in a separatist part of [Moldova](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/16/uk-wont-send-arms-moldova-fears-russian-takeover/) are preparing to ask [Vladimir Putin](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/vladimir-putin/) to annex their region, amid warnings that an emboldened Kremlin is trying to destabilise Europe.
Gennady Chorba, a politician in Transnistria, which borders Ukraine, has said the rebel government will submit its request to the Kremlin on Wednesday during a special congress that last met in 2006.
“This will be voiced to [Russia](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/25/war-with-russia-is-coming-britain-is-determined-to-lose/) on behalf of citizens living on the left bank of the Dniester River,” Mr Chorba, was quoted as saying earlier last week.
His statement came a few days after [Sergei Lavrov](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/10/sergey-lavrov-russians-foul-mouthed-foreign-minister-whose-outburst/), Russia’s foreign minister, said the rights of pro-Russian separatists in Transnistria must be respected.
Western analysts believe the development is part of Moscow’s “hybrid warfare” campaign to destabilise Europe.
# ‘Imminent political crisis’
The US-based Institute for the Study of War said Putin was trying to ramp up tension in Transnistria to create an “imminent political crisis” in Moldova, a former Soviet state that wants to join the EU.
Russia keeps roughly 2,000 soldiers in Transnistria and there were concerns in 2022 that the Kremlin could use it to open a second front after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Concrete machine gun posts facing Transnistria dot Ukraine’s western border.
However, Ukrainian officials are sceptical that Putin wants to formally annex Transnistria, a sentiment backed up by analysts in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital.
One source, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that the Kremlin viewed the region and two other [pro-Russia rebel states in Georgia](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/georgia/2524550/Russia-invades-Georgia-as-South-Ossetia-descends-towards-war.html) as useful tools to use in its “hybrid warfare” against Europe, which has included funnelling migrants into the EU and spreading misinformation.
“Somebody may have ordered this to provoke tensions, to provoke reactions and it’s worked,” he said.
Alexandru Flenchea, a former Moldovan deputy prime minister and a former chief negotiator on Transnistria, said the statement may have been ordered by local businessmen who effectively run Transnistria as their fiefdom, because they want to derail EU customs integration with Moldova.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/25/moldovan-separatists-ask-putin-to-annexe-their-region/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/25/moldovan-separatists-ask-putin-to-annexe-their-region/)
They could not be thrown out to russia ?
Because that would go over well.
Am i the only one sick of reading russia wanting to fagocitate any bloody region?
This will mark the end of Transnistria because then Ukraine is allowed to attack them…
The moment you ask another country to annex your country you are no longer a separatist, you are a colonialist.
I absolutely hate them
Just like Chechnya also “asked”
Now this is something really bad.
Putin tells separatists to ask him to annex them*
They’re likely desperate.
I expect Romanian right now. 😂
We really don’t need it. We only care about Moldova.
inb4 russia threatens to nuke anyone attacking transnistria
Why doesn’t Ukraine attack them? It would be a big propaganda boost to remove an entire Russian separatist state.
Moldovan Separatists request extinction. FTFY
Technically how do they imagine this? Moldova is a landlocked country between Romania and Ukraine.
Holy shit
Here we go again
Lol do they realise that the moment they do, they are at war with Ukraine and will probably be de-Russified pretty fast imo because they can’t afford a new front in the east.
As if Russia hasn’t been trying to do this for years. If they could they would. Right now the MIGHTY RUSSIAN MILITARY is getting their asses handed to them by Ukraine, who is showing the world what a little bitch they really are. The chances of Russia being able to do anything about annexing another country right now, on anything but paper, are zero.
“Separatists”
All 5 of them?
Russia already has a massive base there and more or less controls it already. Guess this would just make it de jure rather than de facto.
Strip him off of his citizenship, pay him for his real estate and send him out of country.
One of the reasonable options for Moldova would be to ask Ukraine to occupy that territory at least temporarly.
Pro-russians just creamed themselves at this news lol, they think that the soldiers in Transnistria will capture Odessa lmao
Dear Moldovan separatists,
Please move to Russia. You can be one with the Russkie Mir. They have more than enough space and resources to both accommodate and employ you. You can even get a permanent job overnight with a whopping salary of $3000 each and every month working on the front line. Russia has some major demographic issues that you can help them out with. It’s win – win.
There’s no point living in Moldova if your heart is in being part of Russia. Don’t be limp soft and flaccid. Don’t wait for Russia to come to you – you go to Russia. You’ll love it – it’ll be non-stop thrills and spills.
But, if you decide to stay – for whatever reason, then maybe STFU and accept you’re Moldovans in Moldova and be peaceful and happy there.
How exactly would that even be possible? Transnistria borders Ukraine not Russia, dumb russians being dumb as usual
Poor buggers think Putin will put them in charge then, instead of his own cronies.
Don’t they have a huge stock of ammunition in that region?
Well, that should speed up the whole Moldova joins Romania in the EU process, rather than letting it fester for much longer.
“Moldovan separatists” got their thing on 1992. Now we are talking about “Transnistria separatists”.
Hey, I’ve seen this movie in 2008, 2014 and 2022.
I’m kinda tired of the reruns, can we get SOF on the ground and wipe Transnitria?
Well then leave moldova and move to russia ffs
Transnistria is not Moldova and it will never be. It’s just a tumor attached to Moldova by the soviets after it has been conquered from Romania just to control it better.
They are de facto independent. Moldova should just leave them alone since Moldova finishes at the Nistru. The only issue is that if you give Transnistria the right to self-determination you need to give it to Gagauzia too and that’s a problem.
Many people here don’t even know what Transnistria and Moldova are and they’re just farting propaganda (Pro West or Pro Russian).
Time for Moldova to join Romania, Putler can’t annex part of a NATO country
The West has slowed ammunition transfers to Ukraine, and soldiers are low on ammo. Looks like another front could open, in that entire area.
The American Republican Party intends to block Ukraine Aid until putin makes significant gains, or destroys most of Ukraine. Moldova will recieve a share of putins missiles, destroying their infrastructure, to try and get the country to capitulate.
Well, Putin does need fresh meat for the grinder. I suppose the so-called MPs will volunteer for the front.
He’s a traitor.
Traitors gets…i would like to say something else but let’s go with “put in prison”.
That guy should be imprisoned, with anyone saying the same shit, 5 minutes after he has said it.
Well, Moldova is a NATO member.
That’s not gonna happen.
EDIT: They are a member of North Atlantic Cooperation Council and not of NATO. My bad. Their constitution mandates neutrality between Russia and the NATO. So, they can’t join NATO.
I’ve travel to Transnistria multiple times, and I can confirm it’s a shithole that no one will miss either way.
Dude put on his prettiest dress bent over calling for daddy Putin to come take him. Pathetic
Same Russian rhetoric. Encourage minor population in the other country and invade.
How is that separate.
Yeah I’m sure this isn’t all orchestrated by Putin
Did anyone think Putin would stop with Georgia? Or Ukraine? Here is the next country he wants.
I remember another little man who just wanted some small areas…
Separatism, european cancer since 1945
Misleading title.
The article’s title is “Moldovan separatists to ask putin to annex the region”… It’s allegedly going to happen on February 28, one day prior to putin speech.
Put those retards that are saying this on a train, plane, bus and send them into Russia – ofcourse while canceling their citizenship. Bye bye problem solved
Russia dominates the information space, fascism is on the rise!
See, Trump, Orban, no this … Prepare for WW3, lazy democrats!!!!