Moldovan President Maia Sandu said Monday that there was a plot by Russian operatives to overthrow her country's leadership and place Moldova "at the disposal of Russia."
Sandu's warning comes just one week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country had intercepted a Russian plan for the "destruction of Moldova."
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Sandu added, "The Kremlin's attempts to bring violence to our country will not succeed." The Russian government did not immediately respond to Sandu's allegations.
AP noted that since the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, Moldova, a former Soviet republic and European Union state that borders Ukraine, "has sought to forge closer ties with its Western partners," but has faced a range of pressures from Russia against doing so.
These problems include "a severe energy crisis after Moscow dramatically reduced gas supplies; skyrocketing inflation; and several incidents in recent months involving missiles that have traversed its skies," per AP.
Though Moldova has been mostly able to avoid violence, the political turmoil reached a breaking point last week after Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița announced she was resigning, along with her pro-Western cabinet. Sandu nominated Dorin Recean, a noted pro-EU figure, as the new prime minister to try and stablize the crumbling government.
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