Russia launched a “partial” mobilisation last week to reinforce its troops in Ukraine, and there are 200,000 people with dual Moldovan-Russian citizenship who live in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria.
Maia Sandu, Moldova’s pro-Western president, said there was a risk that some of those people could be called up by Russia to fight.
“To prevent that happening, we are analysing the possibility of applying the process of revoking Moldovan citizenship for those people (with Russian passports) who fight on the side of the aggressor,” she said, adding Moldova was holding consultations with Moscow to prevent cases of its citizens being called up.
![A woman walks past the Operational Group of Russian Forces headquarters in Tiraspol in 2021, the capital of the breakaway region of Transnistria, a disputed territory unrecognised by the international community, in Moldova [File Photo: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com04/Transnistria.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C510)