Moldova Seeks Russian Troop Withdrawal from Transnistria
Madalin Necsutu
Russia is holding military manoeuvres in Transnistria as the UN gets ready to discuss Moldova’s request for Moscow to withdraw its troops from the separatist region.
The UN General Assembly is to discuss by the end of October Chisinau’s request for Moscow’s forces to leave Transnistria, a pro-Russian breakaway area of eastern Moldova, as the Russian troops continue manoeuvres in the separatist region.
The Moldovan authorities are trying to obtain a resolution that will force Russia to honour a commitment it undertook at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul in 1999 and pull out its soldiers.
Read more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/russian-army-rotates-its-peacekeepers-in-transnistria-10-23-2017
Russia is so huge, it's amazing that they would be concerned with largely little pieces of land like this, little at least, in regards to Russia as a whole which is massive.
