Mircea Snegur Stepan Topal Moldovan Police[1] Budjak Battalion[2] Transnistrian volunteers[2] The Gagauzia conflict (Gagauz: Gagauziya çatışmaları; Romanian: Conflictul din Găgăuzia) was a conflict between the Moldavian SSR and posteriorly the independent Republic of Moldova and their Gagauz population, which sought further autonomy within Moldova.

All of this produced certain discomfort in the Gagauz people, mostly Gagauz- or Russian-speaking and which remembered the previous rule of the Kingdom of Romania over Gagauz-populated lands unfavorably.

[4] Elections in this new entity were scheduled for 28 October; on October 25, some 40,000 Moldavian volunteers mobilized by the Prime Minister of Moldavia Mircea Druc marched in the direction of Gagauzia to avoid these elections from taking place, but Moldavian police and forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union managed to stop the volunteers.

[7] The financial weakness of the Gagauz Republic, together with the shock that the Transnistria War, and especially the bloodshed of the battle of Bender of 1992, gave to the Moldovan government, favored moderate, compromise-seeking forces in both sides.

[1] The 1994 Moldovan parliamentary election saw the end of the rule of the Popular Front, which had vehemently opposed granting territorial autonomy to any of Moldova's ethnic minorities or a federalization of the country.