Moldovan President Maia Sandu has called a meeting of the country's security council, following blasts that took down two radio towers in the breakaway Transnistria region in the east of the country, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
The towers in the region along the border with Ukraine had been used to broadcast Russian radio stations. Russian troops are stationed in Transnistria.
There was a sharp reaction from Moscow. "Events in Transnistria are a provocation with the aim of drawing Russia into hostilities in the region," Leonid Kalashnikov, head of the Russian parliament's committee for Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) affairs, said.
On Monday, the Ministry for State Security in the Transnistrian capital of Tiraspol came under attack, prompting the Transnistrian security council to impose the highest terrorist alert level.
There were no injuries in either attack.
Provocative acts
Ukraine accuses Russia of provocative acts with the aim of generating panic. Kiev believes the Russian troops stationed in the breakaway region could invade Ukraine in the direction of the key Black Sea port of Odessa.
Ukraine's intelligence services put out a statement recalling a comment on Friday by a senior Russian military commander to the effect that Russia aimed to control all of southern Ukraine up to the border with Transnistria.
