"Russia’s foreign minister warned that any actions seen as
endangering a Russian
peacekeeping contingent in a separatist region of
Moldova would be considered as an attack on Russia itself.
Sergey Lavrov’s statement in an address at Russia’s top foreign
affairs school underlined concerns that Moldova’s Transnistria region,
which borders Ukraine, could be drawn into the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Russia has stationed peacekeepers there since the 1992 end of a
three-month war that left Transnistria outside Moldovan control. Russian
forces also guard a large ammunition dump in the region." TheHill
