Moldovans worry they may be next Putin target
by Nick Squires
Mar 16, 2022
3 minutes
The foreign minister of Moldova, a country of 2.5 million people on the western flank of Ukraine, does not mince his words. The Moldovan army, he admits, is small and ill-equipped.
“We are not a very big country and we do not have a very well-endowed army with sophisticated equipment,” Nicu Popescu said in a recent briefing in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau, a city of hulking Soviet-era government buildings, broad boulevards, and snow.
He was responding to questions about whether this small nation, which is squeezed between Ukraine and Romania, might be the next target after Ukraine on
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