Keep an eye on Transnistria, the pro-Russian breakaway state in Moldova. On June 1, Dmitri Trenin, one of Russia's best-known foreign policy analysts and a man with good Kremlin antennae, tweeted: "Growing concern in Moscow that Ukraine and Moldova will seek to squeeze Transnistria hard, provoking conflict with Russia." On June 2, a columnist in the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper warned that Russia "seriously faces the prospect of a repeat of the [2008] situation" - when it went to war with Georgia - "this time around Transnistria".
Russia's War Against Ukraine
