Moldova's president warned on Tuesday that a spate of attacks in its Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria were an attempt to escalate tensions, blaming "pro-war factions" within the territory.
Speaking at a news conference after an emergency Security Council meeting, president Maia Sandu said she did not plan to talk with the Kremlin about the incidents over the past 24 hours that included an attack on Transnistria's interior ministry and the destruction of two radio masts that broadcast Russian radio.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Russia's invasion of his country was just the beginning and that Moscow has designs on capturing other countries, after a Russian general said it wants full control over southern Ukraine.
"All the nations that, like us, believe in the victory of life over death must fight with us. They must help us, because we are the first in line. And who will come next?" Zelenskiy said in a video address late on Friday.
Rustam Minnekayev, deputy commander of Russia's central military district, was quoted by Russian state news agencies as saying full control over southern Ukraine would give it access to Transnistria, a breakaway Russian-occupied part of Moldova in the west.
That would cut off Ukraine's entire coastline and mean Russian forces pushing hundreds of miles further west, past the major Ukrainian coastal cities of Mykolaiv and Odesa.
