German Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock recently warned that the current events in Moldova, where the separatist region of Transnistria has asked Russia for “protection”, exhibit a certain similarity to what happened in Ukraine during the first two stages. of the conflict.
Yes, specifically, you mentioned the moment when Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula. “False referendums, false procedures to destabilize another country, are a violation of International Law,” said the German Foreign Minister.
The great resolution
In his opinion, German diplomacy has been aware for years of the destabilization in Moldova by third parties. And, evidently, it is an aspect that is of great concern not only to senior officials, but also to the entire national panorama.
The Parliament of the separatist Moldovan region, close to Russia, approved this week a resolution in which it addresses the Federation Council and the Russian State Duma “with the request that they apply measures to protect Transnitria in the face of the rising Moldova”
Similarities
In this way, Baerbock has drawn parallels and recalled what happened a decade ago when, along with the annexation of Crimea, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, instrumentalized the minorities of eastern Ukraine, a region known as the Donbas, to sow breeding ground for the large-scale invasion that began in February 2022.
Russia has been served of different illegal referendums to annex not only Crimea in 2014, but also the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Jerson and Zaporiyia in September 2022. The international community has in no case recognized the results of these votes.
Current situation of the conflict
It should be noted that Russia’s war in Ukraine has already been two years old and is entrenched, with a front in the east and south of the country of more than 800 kilometers of fortifications, mines and trenches in which neither side makes significant progress.
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In total, 104 weeks of crisis and destruction since the Russian president ordered the bombing of Ukraine. This conflict has left at least 300,000 civilian victims, including deaths and injuries, and six million refugees, in a country with more than 43 million inhabitants.
Despite the number of victims having reduced considerably over the weeks, the bombings do not stop. And that’s not the worst: this armed conflict has become the largest in Europe since the end of World War II and is still far from over.