and mobilize the army in places including prisons. up next, we visit multiple that and see how tension is rising there since the war in ukraine began. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. stay with us and he's on the, it shouldn't be this one here. it's hard not to feel something really is happening here. what is happening to greens and science? researchers explore and untouched the into the eyes. january dw, the most of a country in town, while this was the scene in march 2023. for months,

people have taken to the streets in this full republic which borders on ukraine, pro russian, and pro european protest as engage in angry stand off. the wall and ukraine has polarized small dive in society. fee is ryan. hi, ryan, from the stones at the was the national, the severe panic. people folks were afraid, it would start happening here to the left of michigan managed. we didn't know what would happen next. mold evans felt threatened. the word was that land was put in the next target. the war is really close things good in badly all the indications are there how really is the fee and that whole does and might lose its independence. kenneth small country withstand the pressure from russia, the

the russian invasion of ukraine on february, the 24th 2022 sparks. he is in neighbouring all day over with day the next day off to the president went on tv. i said myself, but he didn't have my assembly instead of june, presidents on the what's happening in our region have a love. i just we have more in ukraine and military activity near the border of the republic of moldova, the frontier letter. it's a dramatic situation for our neighboring country to thought of it. and for us, it's extremely threatening critics, but i'm then good. it is what i thought have been through noise. the alarm was great, but so was the willingness to help in an industrial area on the outskirts of the capital case, you know, we visit,

i know totally to cosigns company the own trip and has been helping ukrainian refugees ever since the war began. he sent up a clothing depot in his factory following a visit to a border crossing on the very 1st day the wall vehicle that would be able to show me when we arrived there. i was shocked and to see a woman dressed only in a nightgown with a blanket around her that had icicles hanging from it to the site itself. it was snowing and freezing cold, so it was and in the middle of a field for the gap is when you lose i'm uh, i called up friends from my village, a promotion a bizarre deal with these. but lots of cars shut off from there. and we brought the 1st $300.00 people there, which did it. but after 4 days there was no more room from the assembly. we house to them at our place, my mothers and other relative by me clothes, many in the village took in refugee last year. i know what you're not going to mention it, but i'd be able to do a few months after the warrant began his pun,

started to suffer from the after effect. by the fall of 2022 in installation was running at around 70 percent. his company makes machinery to process essential oil plants and his clients in western europe. and that was really comes out to we signed contracts and calculated our pricing for the for the $10.00 demik loop. but during the pandemic prices rose and the wars only made things worse to metal and electricity costs are twice as much. now we can no longer get by on our calculated budgeting that as a motion because this is at zillow originally. the length is also changed radically, but i t x photo and video blanca volva come on on the says the when the war started, we stopped making music before we made and published music videos, my friends and i had a band,

but we haven't sung since the 24th of february 2022. the now his music videos i'm traveling oaks seemed like relics from a form along the way in his life was great before the war and looking at this. i can hardly believe it. why does this have to happen? the eob do my films travel logs in moldova, and abroad for ages, but since the war broke out, i've lost all desire to do that. why it's since then both on come on off as being more interested in the political situation in moldova, the up of the world. so i thought that transmission area, this the separatist region and although it's a bit like the don't boss, doesn't matter. i wanted to find out if there was a difference between these conflicts and fleet and whether it could lead to such a hatred and more happening here because you know, just it,

those. that's how this video came about. new to thanks a good deal. so it is still decoy putting you through what is trans mystery you want, cuz it's a region that broke away from all dove in the 1990 example is which is the international community says it belongs to molto but, but mother of a has no control over it in, in 1992, a war took place, barely enough. russian troops had been stationed there ever since. look what, it's all this makes trans mystery a comparable to other hotspots in the former soviet union. you, me that you don't boss. no go in a car box boss of kazi, a and south of sasha, usually city like of the former soviet republics, hold of a declared its independence in 1991. the voters about is to the north, east and south from ukraine and to the west on romania. this small country is also one of europe sports based on the eastern side of the nice,

the river lies the south. declared greatness drove in mo dave and republic. better known as trends and history on its government by separatists loyal to moscow, the in case you know, the motive and capital pro russian governments wielded power the most of the last 3 decades. but now i'm old of as m o d u oriented at this stage in november 2020 my son to was elected president. most important campaign promise was to tackle corruption and poverty. 2 of the country's most pressing problems. but sanders came to office in difficult circumstances. not just a bit of them during this time,

we've had to manage many crises emitted to the college and after the election of the new or limit in the forming of the government, we found ourselves confronted with an energy crisis, the city due to rising natural gas prices exist, the she probably make when there are economic and social problems because this war has had several economic repercussions for the republic of all dover, significant events, including there's great discontent in the population, the nimble to media, but all in total. and the popularity actually among people in rural areas who be most affected, find a warrant in ukraine. the village of toronto, the on the west, and bang companies to has been home to the chin, a family for generations. elaina gen a and her siblings suffer from the poverty that's only getting was here and the war is too close for comfort of with them to do this, they go to behind that hills and not far from here is ukraine named like the lumens

of summerville clay la hope of seeing you blue on the cheek. that is your mind. we were extremely concerned when the war started, the selection of the likelihood explosions and the distance concern is to the new content. and we were scared, eligibility and had our suitcases packed and ready to of you know, we didn't know what would happen next is nice because of the rules and we stuff given user even before hand life, it wasn't always easy. living in a defined, the country has an impact on that daily nice. when elaina chan, a visits granite is on the other side of the river, must go through the border control. the pensioner. this is the old days before the land and its people were separated to the village,

jump in love she on the opposite bank belongs to trends and history. okay, so it's a russian speaking village problem with that nearby is through. i ashton, i'm all deals and village. that's how we live with one another. we did this thing, but there was a lot of exchange across the river. even in the winter over the ice. the city, the guy is the ice was so sick that even cars could drive across. so you can, watching towards the, in the summer the people went by boat, car needs to done. it all worked quite well. let them know if you're watching kind of show me love the past with the last 30 years. the reason has served as a border which can only be traversed at specific crossings on the eastern eastern bank and the hall to the san francisco region line full of images which remain under motive and administration. and tony dickerson comes from this area when he

visits his home village of caution itself. you must also check point stopped by so called russian peacekeepers. you kind of get those as if you like, i do for us, the residents of these villages, the sides of what's annoying to have to drive through here. slowly tmz see even more often because sometimes they perform checks and harass people. give me a good way of, of course, as the check points should have been removed long ago, you will call the 2 sites the that the difficult but a little you are fighting cushion each size typical of the republican world over in the all the ethnic groups in our country are represented by or you can you look at this in petite authority to publish it as since my mindset molds, because he's got any of us, raise people in the village we're estimating ukrainians. russians usability, ongoing carfax, whereas or by johnny's i, him of, with this day, we live with a variety of ethnic groups. but to move to luna,

we'd need the city to is this is anna totally depot science childhood home. when he was growing up here, most of us do belong to the soviet union to us for as long as he can remember language as being a source of conflict in his country. not mind what language did use because of the trial. to then help him with that, with the romanian back then it was most open, you know, they wouldn't let us speak mazda oven, even there were a lot of russians at the factory, but we weren't permitted to speak in our language. really, the russians were always putting us down. i used to go to the node will show each just little cut out for noise and to see what did they say. she fear no, no, no ship of the drawers they called yesterday determined to go holics up on the dirty mode open. um. but the animosity goes beyond

language, pull economic conditions of also cause frank mal david's hoped independence would boost the economy. and betcha that lines. but so far they've reached no benefits using the g to why me a little dazed for 2 people are hugely disappointed because we stumbled from one crisis to the next. what can be done in the last 30 years? we haven't experienced it to any lengthy period of disability for developmental diet. is she yoke it as a result of people no longer trust the government, no matter whether it's pro european was real russian. it's been created in administer that says that we see a guide and we'll see the total, let them use quantity of me to use to give them a digital though when the design it is to many people in this area are pro russian leaning. let me look some i think they're being manipulated because they only watch rush into the station normal. even though i have no other explanation energy that then there's disappointment and the propaganda assembly works very well. be of

the holidays, disappointment, and discontent. could be instrumental lives became evident in september 2022. then bus loads of people from across the country arrived in the capital to protest against the pro european government. these demonstrations were financed by the pro russian opposition. attend camp was sent off in front of the parliament for the pay protest as so they could stay around the clock. this afternoon. the crowd suddenly search towards the entrance of the presidential palace. take him onto the resignation of president my ascend. they taunted. we all the people this must. a stop, we the major resignation. resign the, the crowd, parents,

the pro russian propaganda that it's not the rule that's driving insulation. but the motive in government since my as time do, came to power, we can barely survive. prices of sword. i buy a bottle of key for and some bread and live on that for 3 days. in the parking lot, she shouldn't crawl to put on her knees. something like a cockroach, and beg him, forget your words, hoping that is really for the people wages war. but he doesn't kill any civilians, just like he's on russia and pollutants because i can see that he does everything for the people. i've often been in ukraine. any reason i haven't seen any acts of war. the war only takes place on tv and facebook. the

just how much outside influence is behind the pro task mode. that as president takes a clear stands for this, the most place in the protests we are experiencing today are organized by corrupt people who stolen a lot from this country to go. so they let our land become impoverished. i then fled yet the and now they're using the poor by giving them a bit of the money they've stolen from them. or it would seem, didn't buy, need to go to your meanwhile, they're leading, luxurious lives abroad. and using people to destabilize the situation in this country, the disability is received by chance. i'd like to be as politician. you know, i'm sure said to be funding the protest. sure. is it. be my son, who is our president? sure. don't forget you belong in jail. i'm here to defend our government. these folks are paid to be here, been killed their own mother for cash. the

motors and societies divine and the effects of the war becoming increasingly evident in this fall from wealthy country. although that was almost completely reliant on russian gas, but russia is launch the stay down from gas from height to prices. well, drastically reducing deliveries, last phone and threatened to cut off multiples gas supply altogether. electricity was often in short supply to the patches that the challenge of carrying for the influx of ukrainian refugees close to $100000.00 of them have been living in moldova for months. a huge number, given multiples, total population is just 2600000. the country likes the result is to

solve all these problems on its own, which is also why moaned days that are applying to join the european union schulty off the russia insight if you claim. in june 2022, montalvo was granted e u candidate status. and in the u parliament, my assigned it was loaded pro european stones. this war was caused precisely, by jove, what do you think of designs? 3 se pages. 2 divided into space also improves to seize 3030. we support the sovereignty until he thought aly integrity of the plane. as we always did. could i me a, is you crazy? don't boss. is ukraine key of the song lee, the timing to they bought over the city. will we bought

a few or the yes. small does a still from reaching european standards, especially in rural areas. to this day, the village of tara sofa has no running water. elaina. channing has never known things any other way. during the draft this summer, there was hardly any water in the well. and if i take 3 or $4.00 it's full, the neighbors will only be left with muddy water. that's how it is in the summer. the, the village does have a water station that comes water out at the river for an downstream. some local

residents were also supposed to have access to it without any the neighboring village dots, which has no coincidence, the modem of our village of 10. i still remained with our water. then another mayor came and said, we should collect funds to realize the project. i was the one who went to people and collected the money a year later, still nothing had changed. i asked the mayor to return our money if it wasn't going to work. so, but he said the project was now completed and he couldn't give the money back. oh, my gosh, see more color the bottom except elaina janae's experience is no fine. so lazy cakes. many such instances of corruption have made the people have been quite

a few get rich most mold. ivan said, growing poor since gas prices have shown top elaina chain. a cook's on the woodstove in her quote you on a pension is only around $100.00 euros a month. so she and her relatives must rely on themselves and each other to get by by the american people. we have children living abroad who help us with money from that we buy, but we need to know that we couldn't survive a week on our pensions. but in all 3 years from this, what's the best time phone for the assistance but missed their relatives? you might have done lives in the czech republic to hear my brothers in moscow. my cousins to so i as, as my sister has a daughter, you know, you know, i'm, yes, i have a daughter in italy, she married someone there. we rarely see each other. that's lives these days

now softer for people, leaders, initials, the young people because there's no infrastructure. usually nothing absolutely nothing. it's also based on lack of press banks that and goes people beyond rest in case she now went on for weeks. it was an open secret. the people were being paid to protest with set daily rates the business for staying overnight. the police kept an eye on developments, but didn't intervene. these demonstrate to support populist politician, eli ensure he's being convicted of stealing a $1000000000.00 for multiplan, banks. money's vanished and he didn't show his split the country. he's been sentenced to 15 years in jail in absent to you and tony

a few punches by debt to say vince to the protesters. why as and show here with you. he robs 3 banks. i don't believe that since you entered politics, he's never forgotten the people on the legend didn't use the book a new just re elected maya. sand do not want to did the people electra? yes, the people are here. we agree with her. we're only, you mean, you know others to or where are the others the they're working on your not your being paid to 400 lake per day to 1000 for the nights or people you know nothing. which is why are you working with them? because i'm here because the money's flowing or where do such deep divisions come from. we notice that in the tent camp,

the screen was showing 10 advised propaganda. what the time line show is on the present. the station tv 6 is owned by one of his supporters disseminate pro russian propaganda. the content is similar to auction to people in trends, new street, the wind altered out of film officially and the separatist territory. roney allowed to visit his tourist for a maximum of 10 hours. so we're filming with a hidden camera to guide maxime to mac lips and works in trends. and these pre owned be contacted several tool guides. but he was the only one willing to show us around under the circumstances. most me to some of our media doesn't report about the protests in case you know, we have, but we have our own politics, our own president, decal, the supreme soviet system, our own power structures, to get these from the justice system through to the executive. look what happens on

the other side of the river. it doesn't affect us. trends in history, a is closer to russia in spirit lose a small dove is closer to your. um, what is it around 500000 people live in this break away region, which is politically and economically reliance on russia. most of the people here also have russian citizenship. transmission area is possibly populated and people mainly live thanks bombing the is a ukrainian florida is never far away. can you me put it on stay. you can see the border posts in the this is the border strand between trans mystery and ukraine. southern there are border patrols here,

like in every country in the world. 1500 russian soldiers stationed in france and history as we had for the capacity. i munition deb, it's thought to be one of the largest in eastern europe, housing and estimated $20000.00 weapons. no one knows whether russia plans to use them some day or against whom. one single. it's a little place which is only known because of its ammunition depot, and that was built during the soviet era. the new, the copy of it is after the collapse of the soviet union of the little trans mystery inherited by the fiscal seals of frustrating unites. it's closely monitored by our justice department and russians. peacekeepers is going to be order them in the middle ports and we are to see, excuse me, as an ad. so the origin, the law has been set about dismantling the depot. the pretty much, i don't think that's possible right now without provoking people on one side of the

river or the other to see the news. and you said the one used to be to go into let's go with them. so it is of them we can solve the trends in history or conflict as long as the russian military remains on the territory of the republic of moldova. we locate the country's rightful institutions to have been demanding the withdrawal of russian troops for decades to detain. you, we also demand the destruction of the weapon stored in combust now, which poses great danger. not just for the republic of ball dover, but for the entire region will become all the shooting that are doing that the job boosted, told me that i wish to trans industry. it would become independent who shares those trans mystery a must become independent school. the dates of lydia the over the last 30 years, people's views have changed. their language is also an optical show because many

people here don't speak any romania we wish to move here. everyone speak russian can do to go to the bottom instead of the white of middle school visit to 1992. the trends and history a warm lead to trends and history. a breaking away from all dover. the reminders of this time can still be found at the border to the separatist territory. in caution, it's a heavy fighting took place with a russian army and separatist loyal to moscow on one side, those defending moldova, on the other, to the automated state or the use of the traces that remained from those times. by the way, it ceased, the guys drilled these holes for shooting and said he gets caught in the you can see the distance between them around 4 meters because there weren't so many soldiers that usually usually less the people are also stationed on the roof of the building it, see this was the village of center and defend, but i, that's out totally. which is something broken locally based on what's happening in

ukraine. now it's familiar to me to have to move back then we have lots of refugees who fled to case you know, ssl is good for romania or i can well remember people's driver into your side of what's happening now. effects me my deeply go. i mean, a lot of jason sampling used to for that project, and i totally did co signs causing to punch in the fighting. but then you get a c o 2 is emilio, it's going to, it's just that protests approach the village and shot into the air with their machine guns across the front and the residence i'll do it is really the next day we went to the police station and they gave us for machine gun us because we have enough money. i'm putting the money to move, but to hold the market, we use these weapons to mount our defense economic typically, but they're, listen, i'm up to push when the police and reinforcements from case you know, no chip, what does it need? and that's how we weren't able to hold off the separatists and not let them into

our village. i don't know if that's true. let me push through some muscle chip. what i'll do room the way in 1992, the armed forces that the young republic of mold of consisted of no face soldiers and volunteers. for the older generation, the memory of these dramatic times is still vivid, condemned. it's not letting me now to the den or the 1st time i went to the front, i really food kind of unique. i got to know a policeman. he accompanied me some of the month to. no one else would go there fucking within me unless you, i said i'm not afraid and remember this should do when we arrived there. much in the boys were sitting in the trenches sort, especially making fire from tree branches, the desk and drawing their clothes themselves. so as go find it that's too affordable for you couldn't feel anything but pity for those poor boys sitting

there certain minute. how could i not bring them dinner? no cheese and institutional gutted to shut the room off? did you still in the black who, one night? because a lot of 2 separate disease came with machine guns stuck with me, but i mean, they fired the whole time. we don't go, there was so much blood that it flowed down this around them. it did you have to do the trans new streaming? with short unplugged cushion it remained moldova. trent's new stream broke away and oriented itself towards russia. the cease fire agreement has held since it was signed on july the 21st 1992. but some 30 is on was once again threatened small davis franchise and peace, just how much the will and ukraine effects. moldova became clear when russia announced a partial mobilization of military reserve is in september of 2022. the young

man to young. well, david, man with russian citizenship could be drafted. the user to see is a dessert hers. let's see, that's what my acquaintances from russia are now being called, which is alone. you. even those with mold, open citizenship out a hard time leaving russia is, are it shows them there were long lines there, dual citizenship. so didn't exempt them from mobilization. when yes it was that they were very nervous. hundreds of thousands of men deemed fate for military service. left, russia, sophia, being called on, most fled to neighboring countries to catholic stone, armenia, or georgia. rover, come on off, documented the exodus, but his blog. you have a ball because again,

the day before the mobilization took effect, it was that the only border check points between russia and georgia where there was a lot of activity with the you know, football, i spoke with people there and later with a few russians who made it to police the dump bump shell. so that's what this video is about. and i see on with a black, i'm a look that's the scene of the border needs of the russian mobilization also created a potentially volatile situation for the republican moved over, especially with transmits trio is consent you study school them will be that there is the danger of a mobilization of low dove and the citizens in the countries eastern districts been to this to prevent such actions were examining the possibility of revoking them adult in citizenship. of those who hold citizenship of both the republic of mo, dover, russian,

and the russian federation guide. and who fight on the side of the aggressor the the youngest, most or for i don't know exactly what the leaders of russia and other countries are after. but these conflicts are very similar. it's no coincidence that we've all been divided them with all the over georgia, ukraine, azerbaijan and armenia, either by john sent me 9 for both come on of the idea that russia is systematically dividing these post. soviet societies is as obvious as it is disconcerting. the in october of 2022, the boy in ukraine came even close at him all day event. ponce from the russian miss. i'll find that ukraine vantage animal. dive and village near the boat in the vast ways. best windows in several houses here in northern mill. dover. but no one

was injured. ukraine's anti aircraft systems shut down, the rushing miss sile presidency and who came to see the situation for herself. the missile came from ukraine and what's a rush it got to do with that. but we need to differentiate between who's supporting the war and who is going to ideas. we want to support the new wise power more times cheaper and your brain needs to be at the new new grain has no electricity either. but some of the directv tv and other cities, when there's no light, when you can, you know, water. no heat would need died in the winter. the most jovan government will provide compensation for heating cost at the beginning. yeah. almost not for everyone to know what you mean. why not last year it was paid,

and this year it will be even more people get done, but we're suffering the this is always done. the visa this winter will be tough to do to the war because prices have risen due to the war miss. we're a small country and we need to stick together in these tough time slows. lindsay, we don't do it. we'll see. thank you. meanwhile, the tent camp in front of the parliament has been cleared by the police. but the problems wouldn't be swept away so easily. in november 2022, the energy crises grew was following massive russian attacks on the ukrainian power system. although that was also experiencing electricity shortages and blackouts

and the things to financial support from the international community. could them all dive and stay to compensate pensioners and low income earners for the winters high energy costs? still life remain to struggle. somebody on tripping. uh and tony did cos huh. had to suspend production at his company. the teaching and energy costs with to high and the order situation was to onsite and your specifics until until started we were in a kind of hyper nationwide in at the moment there was no progress, nothing. and we're all waiting for some things, but we just don't know what we just did. there was no stability as far as our business goes, that we have a few contracts, but they're on hold because people are waiting to see what happens with that step. hardly any investments are being made. it's a big problem and means we can't develop gesture lending attempted to move past.

despite the leak economic situation. and tony, take a sauce bills, opponents ukrainian refugees. but the how much longer he to needs to see some design to the end of the tunnel. in february 2023, both of us, the ability to be increasingly present president minus tend to reveal the details of an alleged russian plot to over throw her pro european government. she was allotted to the planned coo by ukraine, which said it had intercepted russian intelligence, the angel, the plan included sabotage. we begun militarily trained, people disguise the civilians to carry out violent actions. you gotta send a tax on government buildings. i talk about what kind of stuff and taking hostages

letter that was sent. so you're not doing your name through violent action is disguised as protest aside the so called opposition. i don't want to support the change of power in case you know that it would be forced. the in march 2023, a new ways of pro russian speak perchance began this time. the issue was mil davis official language and what it's named adam and rotate that it should no longer be called multiplan as it was during soviet times, but rather romania. it was another step taken by and condiments, pro european majority to distance itself from all the soviet legacy and with it,

from russia to the roof. uh, come on, attempts to print the test and the capital with concern. the situation in the country is we're using the language is we're always at the forefront. there was source of irritation as i was really close to things, but and badly i, that's to all the indications are there if someone is aiming to aggravate the situation. yes, it's already escalated, i'm looking it up so i'm, i'm quite concerned to see this the me here people is that some of the price points . romanian is our only language we're more buildings although than language traders. our language is romanian, though then the video and this shows the polarization and how nerves are afraid,

my conviction that moldova will be drawing more deeply into the conflict as of from this year, which i live at the start of the war. the fear was great. since then, we've unfortunately grown used to the war bi weekly. now i'm calmly talking about the fact that something could happen here. would you please, could you use russia really working to promote conflict to move over in the hopes of bringing down it's pro european government reports about to print in strategy paper containing a concrete action plan to destabilize moldova, as the jumpstart noise space wilson. then we're not threatened to military aggression today that both my friends will go to see what precisely because russia cannot reach our borders and give you those. you spend those boy the kremlin is waging a hybrid war against the republicans,

moldova sent them question. include luna and ok. yeah. so i'm going to see you at the same time. yeah, no good things are also happened as when we bought the we've managed to make it through the winter to be compared to the despite gas problems. blackmail, despite the fact that prices were very high, that is, you might want think about the despite the destabilization attempted and since i see below it, let's call this beta space or dislike rushes. attempts to bring down a democratically elected government. the but i'll got the dimensions, i want everyone to understand on spread one hour, only route to prosperity. that piece of freedom and stability is membership in the european union. the are the one day. one of them is eventual extension to the view is still far off. and since the war in ukraine began, it's become clear that russia isn't prepared to stop excepting its influence on this small republic. over will be fighting for its future for a long while to account the

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