Moldova was granted EU candidate status alongside Ukraine in June 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a concert in Luzhniki Stadium on February 22, 2023 in Moscow, Russia."Being neutral doesn't mean you don't have forces to protect your territory and population," NATO deputy secretary-general Mircea Geoană said of Moldova as tensions increase over the eastern European country's fate.
Yet the Moldovan government in Chisinau, led by President Maia Sandu, understands"that being neutral does not mean you have to be weak militarily," Geoană continued.But the NATO deputy secretary-general questioned Moscow's ability to commit further forces to Transnistria, which would"mean occupying all of Ukraine, including Odesa, to make a junction with those there."is the closest major settlement in Ukraine to Transnistria and its capital, Tiraspol.
Moldova has felt some of the fall-out from the Ukraine war, and missiles entered Moldovan airspace last month.it would not be operating flights from the capital from March 14, citing concerns about the safety of the country's airspace due to the ongoing war. "Following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country's airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to Chisinau from 14 March," the carrier said in a statement.
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