In the last week before the elections, the president of the Republic Of Moldova, Maia Sandu, launched a direct appeal to the citizens, warning that Russia wants to seize Moldova.

“If Russia gets to control Moldova, the consequences will be direct and dangerous for our country and for the entire region. All Moldovans will suffer, regardless of who they voted for. Europe will end at the border with Moldova. European funds will stop at the Prut. Freedom of movement could end.

Our land could become an infiltration ramp to the Odessa region. The Transnistrian region would be destabilized. These are their plans and they tell them openly.
We must keep Moldova peaceful, out of war and Russia’s attempts to attack or destabilize other states.

Russia does not act alone. The Kremlin has accomplices in Moldova. People who have shown many times in the past that for money they sell their country. They have no land, they have only Masters! They don’t believe in Russia or Europe. They only believe in money. They want a weak Moldova, a corrupt justice that will not hold them accountable for either corruption or betrayal of their homeland. We and you have already lived in times when those who buy votes today were at the helm of the country. Let us remember how much harm they did to Moldova and how hard it was to drove them from power.

After so many efforts, after so many generations sacrificed, we have no right to hand the country over to the corrupt and the traitors. The Kremlin thinks we’re all for sale. That we are too small to resist. That we are not a country, but a territory. But Moldova is our home. And our house is not for sale. Our house holds on to our worthy people — you are the wall on which peace and the future of our children are held. Our ancestors sometimes paid with their lives to defend Moldova”.