Tiny, Landlocked Moldova Struggles to Deal With the Fallout of Russia's War on Ukraine [View all]
WASHINGTON — Russia's war on Ukraine has exposed a host of new threats for the tiny, landlocked nation of Moldova, which has grappled with an influx of Ukrainian refugees while maintaining a total dependence on Russian gas.
Moldova is Eastern Europe's smallest nation, with a population of fewer than 3 million and a landmass slightly larger than the state of Maryland. In less than two months, however, it has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing Russia's ongoing military campaign.
"Of course, we cannot compare ourselves with Ukraine and the tragedy for which Ukraine is going through," Moldovan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicu Popescu told a table of think-tank experts at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C., on April 19.
"But we are the most fragile neighbor of Ukraine because we are the country that is most affected and we are the country that has the fewest resources to deal with the situation and the fallout from the war," Popescu added.
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