From security to politics and the economy, Ukraine and Moldova are cooperating more closely now than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union as both countries feel increasingly threatened by their huge, assertive neighbour, officials and experts told BIRN.

Bilateral and especially security ties were further strengthened on May 25. On that day, Ukraine’s parliament adopted a law – promulgated on April 12 by President Petro Poroshenko in the presence of Moldova’s Prime Minister Pavel Filip in Kyiv – establishing two new joint border points.