A group of “saboteurs” from Serbia would have arrived in the Republic of Moldova this week as part of Partizan Belgrade soccer team fans, which had scheduled a soccer match on Thursday, PAS MP Andrian Cheptonar said, Jurnal.md reported. . Moreover, the authorities decided that the match would be played in front of empty stands, as this measure was taken after information was intercepted by the Intelligence and Security Service (SIS).

• “This week, a football match between the team of Serbia and the Republic of Moldova should take place in Chisinau.
• Initially, it was planned that the entire gallery of the Serbian team would come to our country.
• Thanks to the efforts of the Intelligence and Security Service, long before Zelensky’s information appeared, the Serbian national team would play with empty stands, as saboteurs planned to enter this gallery.
• The legal authorities of the Republic of Moldova will use all the opportunities available to them to protect the constitutional regime and the right of citizens to integrate into the European Union,” PAS deputy Andrian Cheptonar said, Jurnal.md reports.

Announcement of the Tiraspol football club

And FC “Sherif” announced that the match with Belgrade “Partizan” in the Conference League, scheduled for Thursday, February 16, will take place in empty stands, writes Ziarul Național.

• “The Football Federation of Moldova informed FC Sherif about the decision of the Moldovan authorities to hold the Conference League playoff match between FC Sherif and Partizan (Belgrade) without spectators.
• In this sense, spectators who bought tickets for this match will be refunded,” the Tiraspol club said in a statement.

At least 12 Serbian fans of the football club “Partizan” (Belgrade) were not allowed to enter the Republic of Moldova on Monday evening.

According to the border police, they “did not meet the conditions of entry, did not have the necessary documents and could not justify the purpose of the trip.” After the night spent at the international airport of Chisinau, the Serbian fans returned to Belgrade on Tuesday morning on the first flight, the National Newspaper also writes.

Maia Sandu announced a violent Russian plan with attacks and hostage-taking to blow up the Republic of Moldova

The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, announced on Monday that Moscow has a plan to undermine the country “with the involvement of saboteurs with military training, camouflaged in civilian clothes, who will carry out violent acts, attacks on some government buildings and take hostages.”

She made a statement to the press in which she talked about Russia’s plans to remove power from Chisinau a few days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced Moscow’s plan to destroy the Republic of Moldova.

• “The plan for the next period involves actions involving saboteurs with military training, camouflaged in civilian clothes, who will resort to forceful actions, attack individual government buildings and take hostages.
• Violent actions disguised as protests by the so-called opposition would force a change of power in Chisinau.
• The documents received from our Ukrainian partners demonstrate high-quality documentation of the locations and logistical aspects of the organization of this subversive activity. The plan also envisages the use of people from outside the country for violent actions.
• For example, the materials contain instructions on the rules of entry to the Republic of Moldova for citizens of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, Serbia and Montenegro,” said Maya Sandu.
• h2: The Kremlin allegedly wanted to send a group of Chechens to Chisinau for a coup d’état

  Russia planned to send groups of Chechens to the Republic of Moldova for a coup d’état, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, warned on Monday.

• “We know their names and surnames and are carefully monitoring that these people do not reach Chisinau,” said the secretary of the NSDC.
• According to him, it will be about a group of Chechen soldiers who participated in the invasion of Ukraine last year and who would now be part of the rescue group sent by Russia to Turkey after the earthquake, and from there they could reach Chisinau. .

• “Some of those scoundrels who were part of the so-called “Chechen group” here on our territory on February 24-25-26 are now in a completely different corner of the world.
• Now they are “fast” in Turkey. Now we are closely monitoring this situation so that these “rescuers” do not reach Chisinau,” Danilov added, Pravda reports.
• h2: Russia’s reaction

  Maya Sandu’s statements regarding Russia’s plans to carry out a coup d’état in the Republic of Moldova did not go unanswered in Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry responded a day later, saying the allegations were “baseless” and that Russia posed no threat to the Republic of Moldova.

“Such accusations are completely groundless. They are built in the spirit of classic techniques often used by the US, other Western countries and Ukraine: first accuse with reference to allegedly secret information that cannot be verified, then use it to justify their own illegal actions,” he said on Tuesday. Press- the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova is quoted by TASS.

She commented that Volodymyr Zelenskyi launched the theory about “a Russian plan to destabilize Moldova” with the aim of “drawing Chisinau into a tough confrontation with Russia.” Zakharova said that the authorities of Moldova confirmed “Zelenskyi’s lies” in order to divert attention from internal problems.

“We call on the authorities of Moldova to show the spirit of statesmanship, not to succumb to external challenges and be guided in their actions by the interests of the citizens of their country, understanding the great advantages that stable friendly relations with Russia can bring to the Republic. Moldova. (…) Russia does not pose a threat to the security of the Republic of Moldova,” said an official of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

John Kirby, the White House’s National Security Council communications strategy coordinator, said Monday that reports of an alleged Russian plot to topple the government in Chisinau are troubling and said Washington supports the government and people of Moldova.

• The response of the pro-Russian party of the controversial Ilan Shor: call on the population for new demonstrations

It will be recalled that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, announced on Thursday in Brussels that Ukraine intercepted the plan of the Russian special services to destroy the Republic of Moldova. Zelenskyi’s statements take place in the context in which Moscow, through the voice of Foreign Minister Serhiy Lavrov, accused the West of wanting to “turn the Republic of Moldova into a new Ukraine.”