France signs defence deal with Moldova amid Russian threats

© The Financial Times Limited 2024. All Rights Reserved. Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way. France and Moldova have signed defence and economic co-operation agreements as part of French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for western countries to support Ukraine and its most vulnerable neighbours against Russian aggression. The bilateral deals agreed […]

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France and Moldova have signed defence and economic co-operation agreements as part of French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for western countries to support Ukraine and its most vulnerable neighbours against Russian aggression.

The bilateral deals agreed on Thursday come a week after Moldova’s breakaway pro-Russia region of Transnistria asked for Moscow’s help, in a call that echoed separatists in the Ukraine region of eastern Donbas at the outset of the conflict in 2014. Russian officials have in recent days compared Moldova’s pro-European leadership to that of Ukraine.

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