On February 28, during an anti-government protest in the capital of Moldova, Chisinau, clashes broke out between protesters and the police, reports NewsMaker.
The rally was organized by representatives of the “Shor” and RACE parties. protesters tried to break through to the government building through the police cordon, as a result there was a scuffle.
Then attempts to break through the police cordon stopped, the organizers set up a stage near the Chisinau City Hall, a representative of Shor spoke to the protesters Dean Turcan. During the speech, he “became baptized and recited the Lord’s Prayer,” the publication said.
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At least some of the protesters were brought to the capital of Moldova in an organized manner. So, NordNews reports that dozens of residents of the city of Cupcini, located in the north-west of the country, went to Chisinau by bus.
Journalists talked to these people, many of them are Russian speakers.
One such protester told a media representative that he did not know Romanian, which is the state language in Moldova.
“I’m not from here. I cannot understand your language. I’m from Russia,” the 21-year-old said.
Another protester said that the trip was organized by a woman named Marina, and did not deny that he was participating in this for money. Against what the protest, the man could not answer.
Marina herself did not want to talk to reporters and denied that she was the organizer of the trip.
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NewsMaker writes that this is the second such action, the previous one took place on February 19th. The protesters demand that the government pay bills for gas, heating and electricity for three winter months – at the last action they adopted a resolution and gave the government a week to think.
The press secretary of the Action and Solidarity Party (founded by President Maia Sandu) said NewsMaker that the protests are an attempt destabilize the situation in Moldova.
Sandu said on February 13 that Russia plans to carry out a coup d’état in Moldova through opposition protests. She said that RF pcounts, in particular, on the Shor party, some veterans, former law enforcement officers and people known for their connections with the former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc.
According to Sandu, the purpose of these actions is to change the constitutional and legitimate government in Chisinau to an illegitimate, pro-Russian one, “so that Russia can stop the process of European integration of the republic and use Moldova in the war against Ukraine.”
On February 9, 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said, speaking at a special meeting of the European Council, that Ukrainian intelligence had intercepted Russian documents indicating Russian plans to destabilize the situation in Moldova. On February 10, the Moldovan special services confirmed that they were studying the information of their Ukrainian colleagues.
In Moldova, since the 90s, the conflict that began after the declaration of sovereignty has not been politically resolved “Transnistrian Moldavian Republic” (the hostilities ended in 1992). Transnistria is an administrative territorial unit of Moldova, but a “peacekeeping” contingent of the Russian Federation is stationed there.
In 2022, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recognized Pridnestrovie as a territory occupied by the Russian Federation .
On February 23, 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Ukraine was allegedly preparing an armed provocation against Transnistria, “which will be carried out by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” The Ministry of Defense of Moldova refuted the statement of the Russian defense department.
According to the American Institute for War Research, the Russian Federation may be preparing an attack under a false flag in the Transnistrian region. According to the Ukrainian military, Russian troops will not be able to land in this region.
