Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,483 km2 (12,928 sq mi) and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre.
Russia aims to capture Odesa and threaten Moldova and Romania, Zelenskyy warns
At the Ukraine-Southeast Europe Summit in..
