Dorin VEMAN, Moldova Prime Minister
Russia tries to “take power” in the capital Chisinau, according to the prime minister. Zelenskyy leaves warning. Russia has another version.
The Prime Minister of MOLDAVIA, Dorin VEANAN, He accused Russia on Wednesday of trying to “take power in Chisinau” through alleged destabilization actions and electoral corruption, a few days from the parliamentary elections scheduled for Sunday.
“O Russia’s goal is to take power in Chisinaauviolating the sovereign will of the molds, ”said VEENAN, at a press conference cited by the Jurdavo Jurnal.
The head of the government of Moldova has ensured that the authorities will “do everything possible” to lock what they have classified as a “Russian occupation plan.”
According to VEANAN, the Moscow pressures “increase evidently” and include “subversive actions” that have intensified in recent weeks.
On Monday, the molded police detained more than 70 people in the context of a investigation about involvement and Russia in possible disorder e violent protests linked to the electoral process.
“O Kremlin has accomplices in Moldova“, Accused, in the same line of thought, the president, Maia Sandu, who warned to“ immediate consequences ”if Moscow could widen her political influence in the country.
“If Russia takes control of Moldova, the consequences will threaten our country not only, but the whole region“I know you sandy.
At the same press conference, the head of government also called for popular mobilization at the polls, stressing that “the final battle for the country’s future is being fought.”
AMEN ALSO REQUESTED THE PRO-RUSSE OPPOSITION TO PUBLICLY THE ACCUSATIONS OF Purchase of votes and alleged scheme which was dismantled by security forces.
“If they do not do so, they are confirming that they are direct beneficiaries of Kremlin -funded electoral corruption,” said Award.
Molding authorities indicated that the investigation scheme involved Illicit payments, manipulation of votes and cyber attacks designed to compromise the electoral process.
The Government of Chisinau considers that such practices aim to favor parties close to Kremlin (Russian presidency).
Zelenskyy notice
The Ukrainian President, Volodyyr Zelenskyy, warned that the Europe should not “lose Moldova to Russia”as has already lost Belarus and Georgia, and argued that the countries at war save themselves with “friends and weapons.”
“We have to remember how the world ignored the need to help Georgia after Russia’s attack, and how Belarus has been lost. Europe can not lose Moldova either,” Zelensky said, in his intervention before the UN General Assembly, in a speech in which he accused Moscow of trying to repeat in the molding territory the same influence on Leban.
The Ukrainian head of state said that international institutions are failing and that reality demonstrates that international law only works when there are strong allies and military capacity.
“It’s terrible, but Without weapons things would be even worse. There are no security guarantees without friends and without weapons, ”explained the Ukrainian leader.
Russia or Europe?
Russia’s foreign information service has a different version: on Tuesday, He accused Europe of “preparing to occupy Moldova”Addressing that NATO units are currently “gathering in Romania, near the borders of Moldova.”
“European bureaucrats in Brussels are determined to keep Moldova in the way of their ‘Russophobic’ policies. They plan to do so at any cost, including the sending of troops and the effective occupation of the country, ”said the Russian entity in a statement published on his internet portal under the title” Europe is preparing to occupy Moldova. “
According to the Russian information service, “at this stage, NATO member countries are concentrating units of their Armed Forces in Romania, near the borders of Moldova“, Scenario, which, according to the same source, has been repeatedly rehearsed in military exercises led by the Atlantic Alliance in Romania.
The occupation “may be implemented After the elections Legislatures in Moldova ”, scheduled for next Sunday, he adds.
It also considers, “European authorities fear that the Under falsification of electoral results, prepared by Brussels and Chisinaauobliges citizens desperately outstand to defend your rights ”.
In this case, it is added in the statement, at the request of the Moldava President, Maia Sandu, “the armed forces of the European states will have to force the molds to resign to a dictatorship presented as a Eurodocracy“.
According to Russian information services, Brussels has no intention of abandoning his Moldovia occupation plans, “even if the development of the situation after the elections does not require foreign interference.”
“Unsinformation without parallel”
A European Commission considered on Thursday that Moldova is facing a “Unsinformation campaign without parallel”three days from legislative elections, and warned that citizens should decide without Russian interference.
“These elections are decisive for Moldova and the country’s future […]the message is very clear: It has to be the vote of citizens to tell, free from any interference“European Commission spokeswoman Anitta Hipper said at a press conference in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and where the main European Union (EU) institutions are located.
The Community Executive spokesman acknowledged that There are citizens of the country who are being instructed by Russia to destabilize the countrynot only spreading misinformation, but also creating disadvantage with the security forces.
Given this factor, the European Commission said it was “impressed with the resilience of Moldova and with all the efforts that are being made by the authorities to ensure the integrity of the electoral process. ”
On the EU side, the European political-economic bloc said it will “support Moldova in his efforts to fight a unparalleled misinformation campaign,” said the spokesman responsible for diplomacy.
Crucial elections
As elections of September 28 are considered decisive For the future of Moldovamarked by division among the forces pro-regular and the parties that defend the European integration, Led by the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), President Maia Sandu.
However, the polls suggest that the PAS may lose the parliamentary majoritymaking room for negotiations with pro-Russian formations, which compete in block, or even for a repetition of scrutiny.
With about 2.5 million inhabitants, Moldova is between Romania and Ukraine.
The molded separatist region of the featured after the beginning of (February 2022) due to ties with Russia and its important geostrategic position.
Russia maintains a contingent of 1,500 soldiers in transnistria, whose pro-regretistas have controlled the territory since the civil war in Moldova in 1992.
