One Year into the War in Ukraine

Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by bigdict on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:09PM (#34932119)

> I'm from around that region so I'm quite familiar.

Not sufficiently familiar then.

"It is estimated that about 250,000 out of 500,000 people living in Transnistria hold Russian citizenship."

That's as of 2020, "passportization" has continued since then.

https://warsawinstitute.org/russia-hands-passports-diaspora/

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by ChuckNorris89 on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:25PM (#34932265)

If France were to give french passports to a lot of Germans in a particular region of Germany, that region doesn't magically become a French asset/territory.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by bigdict on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:29PM (#34932305)

Transnistria is literally controlled by Russian armed forces…

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by ChuckNorris89 on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:39PM (#34932391)

Which are there illegally as they occupy the territory of the sovereign nation of Moldova.

Case in point, no other UN nation recognizes Transnistria or Transnistrean passports. Transnistrean citizens travel with Moldovan passports.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by bigdict on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:07PM (#34932620)

You are missing the point, it's still an asset under Russian control, whether you like it or not.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by mazurnification on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:09PM (#34940942)

But Transnistria has between 360k - 475k ppl (from Wikipedia). Plus everybody want Romanian passport (which is not that hard to get if you are Moldovan) - due to UE free movement ...

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