Tests failed to load after upgrading to 5.1.1

[mike-4040]

Environment

1. Node 20.11.1

2. Dependencies

   "chai": "^5.1.1",
   "mocha": "^10.4.0",
   "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
   "typescript": "^5.4.5",

3. Tests configuration

   • .mocharc file

     # .mocharc
     {
     "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/mocharc",
     "reporter": "spec",
     "require": ["ts-node/register", "src/testUtils/global-mocha-fixture.ts"],
     }

   • test file

     
     # ./src/sample.test.ts
     import { expect } from 'chai';

describe('Simple Test', () => { it('should return true', () => { expect(true).to.be.true; }); });

- running test `npx ./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha.js ./src/sample.test.ts`

##  Issue
After upgrading chai 4.4.1 => 5.1.1 consistently getting Error:

Exception during run: TypeError: Unknown file extension ".ts" for ./src/sample.test.ts at Object.getFileProtocolModuleFormat [as file:] (node:internal/modules/esm/get_format:160:9) at defaultGetFormat (node:internal/modules/esm/get_format:203:36) at defaultLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/load:143:22) at async ModuleLoader.load (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:409:7) at async ModuleLoader.moduleProvider (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:291:45) at async link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:76:21) { code: 'ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION' }