Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Thursday that Russia was renewing its efforts to destabilize the Republic of Moldova and warned that Vladimir Putin would pose a threat to the rest of Europe if he was not stopped in Ukraine, Reuters reported.
“If the aggressor is not stopped, he will go further and the front line will get closer. Closer to us. Closer to you,” said Maia Sandu in Paris during the signing of the defense cooperation agreement between France and the Republic of Moldova with President Emmanuel Macron.
The government of the Republic of Moldova suspended on Wednesday the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed in Paris on November 19, 1990 between NATO and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, in order for both sides to significantly reduce the number of their armed forces. strength
Russia officially withdrew from this treaty last November.
Speaking on Thursday about the danger of expanding Russian aggression, Maia Sandu said that Europe should present a “common front”. “Aggression must be repelled with strong force,” she stressed.
France promises support to the Republic of Moldova
Emmanuel Macron, for his part, said that France will support the Republic of Moldova.
“The democratic reality of the Republic of Moldova and its desire for a European future, as in the case of Ukraine, is a challenge for Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” the French leader said, adding that Paris would strengthen cooperation with Chisinau to repel “hybrid attacks.”
The Republic of Moldova has one of the weakest armed forces in Europe relative to its population and is considered particularly vulnerable if Putin decides to spread the war from Ukraine to Transnistria.
“People in Transnistria live in very difficult conditions. Of course, they need a lot of help. Russia is open to this help, but we prefer to solve any problem until the last moment through dialogue, political dialogue,” said the spokesman of the Russian president, Dmytro Peskov, at the conference just a day ago.
Transnistria’s so-called Congress of “deputies of all levels,” which met in Tiraspol last week at the request of separatist leader Vadym Krasnoselsky, passed an official resolution calling for Russia’s “defense” against what he called concerted aggression. pressure on the economy of Transnistria from the Moldovan government.
The separatist authorities later said it was a request purely for political assistance to resume talks “with a view to resolving the conflict” and not for military assistance.
The Kremlin condemned the “breeding of the bacillus of Russophobia” in the republic. Moldova
Peskov said on Wednesday that the situation between Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova is “far from predictable and calm”.
He also expressed “certainty” that the Republic of Moldova “will not follow the advice of any authority outside the region” and will not choose “the path of confrontation and repression against the people.”
“This will lead to a catastrophe,” he added, condemning that “the bacillus of Russophobia is multiplying” in the Republic of Moldova.
Peskov also criticized the fact that some leaders of Chisinau believe that betting on rapprochement with the European Union means being “enemies” of Russia. “This is a terrible mistake. We hope that Chisinau will understand how terrible this is,” he said.
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