When asked about the prospects for him meeting President Poroshenko, the Moldovan leader said "all in good time."
Independent Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has no financial, human, diplomatic, and even military resources to act in a Soviet-style, forceful manner.
Moscow says it will not pull back the Operational Group of Russian troops from the territory of the self-proclaimed Transnistria, despite appeals from the Moldovan government, that’s according to Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, Kommersant reports.
Certain reports are coming up in Russia elaborating on plans for an offensive military operation in the southern part of Ukraine’s Odesa region, including landing of Russian troops tasked with making a base for organizing a so-called “corridor” to the unrecognized and traditionally pro-Russian Transnistria, that’s according to a Ukrainian MP, member of the Rada National Security and Defense Committee Iryna Friz.
Both the anniversary of the MH17 crash and the jubilee of the formal end of the conflict in Transnistria saw certain follow-ups this week . Ukraine and Georgia intend to boost cooperation, having declared strategic partnership. Alexander Lukashenko's visit to Kyiv did not go without incidents. Zakharchenko’s desire to establish "Malorossiya" looks both intoxicated chatter and part of the Kremlin's plan. Poland is looking into analogies between the current protests in Warsaw and the Ukrainian Maidan.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov held a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova on Reintegration, Gheorghe Balan, to discuss the issues of deepening cooperation between the two countries in the area of defense and security, the NSDC press service reports.
President of Moldova Igor Dodon has told TV Channel NTV Moldova that Transnistria will never become an independent state, noting that another Dubai could have been built for about $15 billion invested in the region in the past 25 years, according to Newsmaker.md.
Transit of goods to the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic through the territory of Ukraine will be performed only upon agreement with the National Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Moldova, according to the Ukrainian State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service.
The Constitutional Court of Moldova on Tuesday, May 2, declared unconstitutional the presence of Russian military forces on the territory of the republic’s Transnistrian region, while Moldova President says such a decision will provoke various political speculations.
Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Kostyantyn Yeliseiev believes Russia is now implementing the so-called "Transnistrian scenario" in the occupied Donbas, at the same time not being interested in ending the hostilities, Segodnia reports.