Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kamar Ukraine, Moldova ta sami muhawara ta ciki tsakanin waɗanda ke son ƙulla dangantaka da Yammacin Turai (gami da shiga Tarayyar Turai) da waɗanda ke son ƙulla dangantaka da Rasha (gami da shiga Tarayyar Eurasian da Rasha ke tallafawa). Hakanan kamar Ukraine, Moldova ta kasance wani ɓangare na Tarayyar Soviet; kodayake Moldova ta kasance wani ɓangare na Romania kafin Yaƙin Duniya na II, an haɗa shi
a cikin Tarayyar Soviet a 1940. A watan Mayun 2014, Moldova ta rattaba hannu kan wata babbar yarjejeniya ta kasuwanci da Tarayyar Turai, wanda ya sa Rasha ta matsa lamba kan tattalin arzikin Moldova, wanda ya dogara sosai da isar da kudi daga Rasha. Zaben majalisar dokokin Moldova na 2014 ya ga nasarar kawancen jam'iyyun haɗin kan Yammacin Turai. Moldova kuma gida ce ga yankin da ya rabu, wanda aka sani da Transnistria, wanda ya kafa Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations tare da Abkhazia, Kudancin Ossetia, da Nagorno-Karabakh. A shekarar 2014, Transnistria ta gudanar da kuri'ar raba gardama inda ta kada kuri'ar shiga kungiyar tattalin arzikin Eurasian, kuma Rasha tana da tasiri sosai a yankin. Ginin dakarun Rasha a kan iyakar Ukraine da Rasha ya sa kwamandan NATO Philip Breedlove yayi hasashen cewa Tarayyar Rasha na iya ƙoƙarin kai hari kan Moldova da mamaye Transnistria.