Moscow is unhappy that Moldova appears to be moving closer to the European Union, Russian state media reported, amid growing US concern that Russia may try to destabilize the small Eastern European country, CNN and News.ro reported.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that Moscow remains open to a “constructive and pragmatic” dialogue with the Moldovan government in Chisinau, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

“Unfortunately, Chisinau’s stance on Russia is unlikely to change,” she continued after Moldova’s parliament approved a pro-Western government this week.

In the message published on Saturday on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova’s answer to a journalist’s question about Moldova, put by the press secretary on Friday at a press briefing, is reproduced.

The journalist asked how he comments on the inaugural speech of the new Prime Minister Dorin Rechan and what the Russian side expects from the new government.

“I carefully followed the formation of the new government of the Republic of Moldova. We noticed that this process was accompanied by an unprecedented increase in anti-Russian rhetoric from the authorities in Chisinau, based on unproven information about an alleged Russian plan to destabilize the situation in the country received from Kyiv,” said Maria Zakharova, who categorized this information as “fiction.”

The press secretary believes that the change of government in Chisinau is just a sham, and therefore she does not expect that Chisinau’s orientation towards Russia will change.

“If we look at the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Moldova, it becomes clear that the changes in it are rather cosmetic in nature. Eleven of its fifteen members retained their positions. Therefore, unfortunately, it is unlikely that Chisinau’s direction towards Russia will change,” Zakharova said.

The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, accused Russia of plans to destabilize the country, which the Russian Foreign Ministry rejected as “absolutely baseless and unfounded.”

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken this week expressed “deep concern” about the prospect of further Russian interference in Moldova.

The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metzola, on Tuesday expressed the “unwavering solidarity” of the European Parliament with the Republic of Moldova in an open letter. “The place of the Republic of Moldova is with us, in the European family,” he said.