Blow for West as breakaway Moldovan region that borders Ukraine calls on Putin for 'protection' : vimarsana.com

Transnistria - a separatist region sharing a border with Ukraine - called on Russia for help in a move carefully choreographed with Moscow. Transnistria is in thrall to Moscow

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