In Varnita, voters travelling from the nearby breakaway Moscow-backed region of Transnistria queue to vote in a presidential runoff election (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Pro-EU Moldovan candidate Maia Sandu casts her ballot in the presidential runoff (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Incumbent Moldovan President Igor Dodon casts his ballot in Chisinau during a second round runoff of a tightly contested presidential election pitting a pro-European challenger against the country's Moscow-backed incumbent (Footage by...

In Moldova's capital, Chisinau, residents react to pro-European challenger Maia Sandu winning the second round of Moldova's presidential election (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Moldovans comment ahead of the country's second round in the presidential elections on Sunday 15 November (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

FILE IMAGES of candidates Maia Sandu and Igor Dodon casting their votes on the first round of presidential election (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Moldova's pro-EU former Prime minister Maia Sandu takes the oath of office as the ex-Soviet country's first ever woman president (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

At the hospital in the small Moldovan town of Leova, exhausted doctors see no end to the pandemic: cases are rising, and vaccinations have only just begun (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

This year's Champions League features an improbable upstart: FC Sheriff, a club run by an eponymous company built on murky money in a pro-Russian separatist enclave of Europe's poorest country, Moldova (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The stars have aligned" says Yuriy Vernydub, Ukrainian coach of football team Sheriff Tiraspol (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The leader of Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria - backed by the territory's influential Sheriff holding company - is set to be re-elected for a second presidential term, according to the separatist state's election commission...

Ukrainians who fled their country wait for a bus to head to Chisinau after crossing the Moldova-Ukrainian border checkpoint near the town of Palanca (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Dozens of Ukrainian Jewish refugees disembark from a plane upon their arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, after fleeing Ukraine to Moldova (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Dozens of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine board buses after crossing into Moldova (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Ukrainian Jews who fled the war into Moldova gather to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim at the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Images of Moldovan Defence Minister Anatoly Nosatiy and facilities of the Defence Ministry in Moldova's capital, Chisinau (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

UN General secretary Antonio Guterres and Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita hold a press conference in the capital Chisinau where they discuss Moldovan development, the refugee crisis and the impact of the war in Ukraine on the...

Residents in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, react to government reports that a Russian missile shot down by Ukrainian air defences fell on a village in the country's north (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The small republic of Moldova, squeezed between Romania and Ukraine, is facing a severe energy crisis, with gas prices increasing sixfold and a national deficit of electricity (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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Ukrainian makeup artist Aliona Antonova fled Odessa the morning of the Russian invasion, on February 24 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Obituaries: Ronald Reagan

In June, the former US president Ronald Reagan died in California after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease, aged 93. Five years...