Moldova鈥檚 ruling pro-EU party on Monday hailed victory in polls overshadowed by accusations of Russian interference, evoking an 鈥榚xtraordinarily difficult struggle鈥� to gain a slim parliamentary majority.
Moldovans voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that could see Ukraine鈥檚 neighbour swerve from its pro-European path back toward Moscow鈥檚 orbit, with the government and the EU accusing Russia of interfering in the ex-Soviet country.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited Kyiv on Saturday for talks with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky amid growing tensions in Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist enclave of Moldova that neighbours Ukraine.
The separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria ordered a second day of rolling blackouts on Saturday, as a shutdown in Russian gas supplies starved the pro-Moscow self-proclaimed state of energy...
