Transnistria’s trade with western Europe has since continued to grow, as its trade with Russia declines. Today, more than 70% of Transnistria’s exports go to western Europe.

Transnistria’s main trading partners during the first half of 2025 were the Republic of Moldova (34% of trade turnover), Romania (15%) and Ukraine (10%). Trade with the European Union accounted ...

A boy runs past a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in Tiraspol, the capital of the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, in Moldova on Nov. 1, 2021. Since Russia fully ...

TIRASPOL, Transnistria — This might be the only city in Europe where there is no indication that a war is being waged in Ukraine, despite that country only being a 20-minute drive away.

Transnistria's state security ministry said an unspecified number of people had been arrested in connection with an attempted attack on the region's president, Vadim Krasnoselsky, and other officials.

Russia plans to greatly increase the number of its soldiers in Transnistria. But so far, it cannot send them there, according to Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, reports Financial Times. The ...

The energy crisis in Transnistria, triggered by Russia's Jan. 1 cutoff of gas supplies, is part of a broader Russian plan to manipulate and spread propaganda, Moldovan government spokesperson ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, which has close ties to Moscow and hosts Russian troops, claimed Thursday it has thwarted an assassination attempt on its president a… ...

Transnistria is a breakaway region supported by Russia, which stations around 1,500 troops there. Locals said they fear the war in Ukraine could spread to their homes in Moldova.

The Russian-backed region of Transnistria has returned three million cubic metres of gas to Moldova, which had been borrowed to keep the region’s gas system operational. Source: Moldovan news outlet ...

Vadim Krasnoselsky, the leader of the unrecognised republic of Transnistria in Moldova, has said that there are "no hopeless situations" and called for heating with firewood amid the loss of gas and ...

After a short war in the early 1990s, Transnistria declared independence from Moldova, where today’s pro-Western government has firmly opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine.