Moldova on high alert as fighting intensifies
Moldova's government says it has placed the landlocked country's borders on alert amid unrest in neighboring Ukraine.
Top Moldovan leaders announced the move Monday in a joint statement after Ukrainian forces deployed an elite National Guard unit to the Ukrainian port of Odessa.
President Nicolae Timofti, Prime Minister Iurie Leanca and Parliament speaker Igor Coreman said in the statement that security forces were ordered "to take all necessary actions to ensure public order inside the country."
It made no reference to any specific threat.
Moldovan Army is relatively small (around 15000 strong) but with combat experience and professionalism appreciated abroad
The three country's leading figures met behind closed doors to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Moldova has some 1,500 Russian troops stationed in a separatist republic of Trans-Dniester which recently asked to be united with Russia.
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