Moldova is preparing personal sanctions against several individuals in connection with Russia’s war against Ukraine. The first decisions may be announced in a few weeks.
Source: Nicu Popescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Mold…
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has noted Ukraine’s support in the full-scale war with Russia, saying that Moldovans need to know “who are our friends and who are our enemies”.
Sandu said this in an interview with the TV channel Moldova 1 on Friday, Euro…
Moldovan president Maia Sandu on Friday stressed that European Union membership was the country’s “only chance” to build a country that could decide its own fate,protected from Russian threats.
She was speaking after anti-government demonstrations erup…
The EU is to spend another €40m on Moldova’s army, amid fresh revelations on Russian efforts to topple its pro-Western government.The bulk of the money will be spent on a “ground-based mobile long range surveillance radar” to help Moldova control its a…
Oleksandr Matsiievskyi, a soldier of the Territorial Defence Forces of Chernihiv Oblast who was executed in Russian captivity, had Moldovan citizenship.
Source: statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova; Eur…
“The measures taken, based on the analysis of risks and information received jointly with national authorities, including by exchanging information with international partners, allowed us to identify a citizen identified as a private military company representative from Russia (Wagner PMC) in the passenger flow at the Chisinau airport. He was not allowed to enter the country and returned by plane to the state from which he flew in,” the police said.
The police noted that over the past week, 182 foreign citizens and 46 units of transport were not allowed to enter the country. Moreover, 165 of them violated the Moldovan border and migration legislation.
NewsMaker media noted that over the past 24 hours, the flow of people arriving in Moldova has increased: over 23.8 thousand people entered the country, with almost all of them being foreign citizens and about 5 thousand of them being citizens of Ukraine.
A total of 229,635 people and 63,332 vehicles entered Moldova over the last seven days.
“To eliminate security risks, in the context of a state of emergency in the Republic of Moldova and the war launched by Russia against Ukraine, security protocols are applied at all checkpoints across the state border, which assume additional control over the crossing of the state border for travelers, especially for foreign citizens,” the police said.
The Moldovan police later reported that they uncovered a group of protest organizers aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country.
Viorel Cernauteanu, Head of the National Police of Moldova, reported that on March 9, law enforcement officers managed to stop a Russian citizen who arrived in Chisinau to conduct training for persons involved in destabilizing the situation.
They were supposed to start riots, including at the rally planned by members and supporters of the pro-Russian ȘOR Party for March 12.
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On March 9, the authorities of the so-called “PMR” accused the Security Service of Ukraine of allegedly preparing a “terrorist attack” against a number of officials of unrecognized Transnistria.
The SSU reacted to this message and called those statements nonsense.
“Мілітарний” працює завдяки постійній підтримці Спільноти
Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the Head of the President’s Office, has said that Ukraine has no motives or intentions to commit a “terrorist attack” in Transnistria, and that the accusations of the occupiers are part of Russia’s plan to attack Moldova.
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The “ministry of state security” of unrecognised Transnistria has claimed to have prevented a terrorist attack against its officials, allegedly on orders from Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU).
Source: European Pravda; Statement by Transnistria’s “minis…
If Moldova wants to join the European Union, it needs to be less afraid of Russia, which is currently busy with Ukraine.
Source: Mircea Geoană, NATO Deputy Secretary General, on the air of Romanian TV channel Prima TV, reports Newsmaker
Details: Accord…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has released video addresses to the Lithuanians, Germans and Danes, thanking them for their countries’ contributions to supporting Ukraine.
Source: Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Twitter; European Pravda
The address to t…