The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, confirmed that the Ukrainian side conveyed to her the Kremlin's plans to destabilize the situation in Moldova, and that forceful actions involving saboteurs from outside the country - from Russia, Belarus and the Balkans - were being prepared.
As Newsmaker reports, she stated this at a special briefing.
"This is a short-term plan that involves sabotage involving persons with military training disguised as civilians. They are planning violent actions, including attacks on some state institutions and taking hostages," Maya Sandu said.
According to her, the materials sent by Kyiv contain detailed logistics documentation for the organization of these subversive actions.
"The plan envisages the use of people within the borders of the country for violent actions in Moldova. For example, the materials contain instructions for the entry of citizens of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Serbia and Montenegro into Moldova," the president added.
Sandu also said that an attempt to seize power in Chisinau is being prepared under the guise of peaceful protests.
The president added that the security forces of Moldova are preparing to prevent these provocations and are keeping the situation under control.
It will be recalled that at the EU summit in Brussels, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukrainian intelligence intercepted the Kremlin's plans to take control of Moldova, after which the Ukrainian leader immediately passed all the information to his colleague, President Maia Sand.
"We don't know if Moscow was given the order to act on this plan against Moldova. But we saw what they were going to do. We learned from this exactly what they were already trying to do against Ukraine, against other states, in particular in Europe. Nothing new," said Zelenskyi.
Russia has repeatedly made sharp and rude attacks against Moldova and the Moldovan leadership, in particular after the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Among the latter, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Serhiy Lavrov said that they are trying to make a "second Ukraine" out of Moldova, which was sharply commented on by the foreign policy department of the state.