Moldovan intelligence services said on Thursday they had detected “destabilizing” activities, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had intercepted a Russian plan on the former Soviet republic.
“Based on the information submitted by our Ukrainian partner and internal data, we confirm that we have identified activities aimed at weakening and destabilizing Moldova,” the SIS services wrote in a statement.
“We cannot give more details at this time due to the risk of compromising” the measures underway to “clarify” what happened, they add.
“Our institutions work to guarantee the security of the country and use all the information from our partners to anticipate and prevent such attempts,” reacted the Europeanist president Maia Sandu.
A plan to “deal a fatal blow to Moldovan democracy”
On a visit to Brussels, the Ukrainian head of state said that he “intercepted a plan for the destruction of Moldova, a plan that was in the hands of Russian intelligence services.”
“This plan showed who, when and how to deal a fatal blow to Moldovan democracy,” Volodymyr Zelensky detailed. “So I don’t know if, indeed, Moscow gave the order to execute it, but in any case (…) this plan was very similar to the one they tried to implement against Ukraine.”
Moldova, a small country of 2.6 million inhabitants neighboring Ukraine and a candidate for the EU since the end of June, is threatened militarily by Russia with the presence of Russian soldiers on its territory, in the pro-Russian separatist region of Transdniestria.
Maia Sandu recently accused Russia of being behind the smuggling of arms, goods, people smuggling, or financing anti-government protests.
Source: BFM TV
