The Latest Breaking News from Moldova

Tensions continue to mount between Russia and Moldova – a small country bordering on southwestern Ukraine that is seeking European Union membership. Moldova is also home to a breakaway region called Transnistria that has strong Russian ties, landing both places in the crosshairs of the war in Ukraine.

Wizz Air's decision, beginning March 14, comes a fortnight after Moldova's president publicly accused Russia of plotting to overthrow its government using violent actions disguised as anti-government protests

Wizz Air has announced that it will suspend flights to Moldova from March 14 due to "risk in the country's airspace" with rising tensions with Russia in the country

Thousands of anti-government protesters again took to the streets of Moldova’s capital to demand that the country’snew pro-Western governmentfully subsidize citizens’ winter energy bills and to “not to involve the country in war.”

The news follows an ‘elevated risk’ to the country’s airspace

Budget airline links decision to airspace risks from war in neighbouring Ukraine and tensions with Russia

Airline Wizz Air said on Monday it would suspend flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from March 14 due to concerns about the safety of its airspace, a decision Moldova's civil aviation authority described as sudden and regrettable.

The Kremlin said on Monday it was worried about the state of affairs in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, where it said Ukraine and other European countries were stirring up the situation.

THIS weekend saw the passing of the one-year mark since the Russian invasion and its war in Ukraine.

Russia told the West on Friday that it would view as an attack on itself any actions that threatened Russian peacekeepers in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, one day after Moscow accused Ukraine of planning an invasion.

When I immigrated to the U.S. from Moscow in the mid-1990s, the first thing I learned was that people in the Soviet diaspora didn’t care where you came from. The fact that I’d spent half my childhood in Ukraine and the other half in Russia carried no significance in the…