Residents in the tiny Moldovan enclave of Molovata Noua fear the Ukraine war spilling over.
The ferry that transports people across from Molovata Noua to the rest of Moldova - the only link the enclave has with the rest of Moldovan-controlled territoryA short drive from Ukraine's southern border, hundreds of Russian troops guard a vast Soviet-era ammunition depot in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria.
On Friday, veterans of that conflict gathered in Molovata Noua for an annual pilgrimage across the line of control into Transnistria, to honour those who died. "It's hard because I feel I'm in my own country," his friend Constantin joins in. "It's my own land, and yet I can't walk freely here." "We were both snipers," Vlad remembers, at the spot his friend Vasea was killed. "They were shooting at us from that hill over there, from a tank. One of the shrapnel fragments hit him in the neck. He fell to the ground and died in my arms."
But loyalties here - as in the rest of Moldova - are complicated by history, geography and economics.
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