The Armed Forces of Baltic and Eastern European States

... join military blocs; however, joint military exercises with NATO countries have been more frequent in recent years. Moldova has military conscription for 12 months. The Moldovan Armed Forces took part in the war against the unrecognized Transnistria, which reached its peak in terms of fighting ... ... to the intervention of the Russian Armed Forces. Since that time, peacekeeping forces comprising observers from the OSCE and Ukraine, as well as servicemen from Moldova and Russia, including a small operational group of Russian troops, have been deployed ...