[FreeInWV]

“I’d bet Transdniestria would join quickly!”

Is it adjacent? I think it is. At the urging of Moldova, Ukraine froze its exports. If there is a common border, I’m sure it will join.

[Verginius Rufus]

Transdniestria is between Moldova and Ukraine--it is the part of Moldovia that already belonged to the USSR from the beginning as opposed to the chunk of Romania that Stalin got as part of his loot from the Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 1939. (It had been the Moldovian A.S.S.R.)

I think Transdniestria is about evenly divided between Romanian-speakers, Ukrainian-speakers, and Russian-speakers. It will probably remain under Russian control regardless of whether Putin annexes the rest of Ukraine...just like the Kaliningrad area belongs to Russia despite not being adjacent to the rest of Russia.

[dangus]

It’s on the opposite end of Ukraine from Russia, Donetsk & Luhansk, but directly adjacent to Odessa; Odessa + Novorussia + Donetsk & Luhanski would connect Transdniestra to Russia.