Antony Blinken flags Moscow ‘plot’ to destabilize pro-Western  Moldovan gov’t

US secretary of state Antony Blinken  on Saturday spoke of Washington’s “deep concern” that Moscow was working to destabilize Moldova and overthrow the government of the eastern European nation.

Speaking after a meeting with Moldovan president Maia Sandu in Munich, Blinken said the US was alarmed by “some of the plotting that we’ve seen coming from Russia to try to destabilize the government”.

Blinken added that the US would continue to “stand strongly with Moldova in support of its security, its independence, its territorial integrity”.

Moldovan and Ukrainian officials have recently claimed that the former Soviet republic which borders Ukraine, was being targeted by a Russia plot.

Blinken is the most prominent western official to publicly make the same accusation.

Speaking at the same event, Sandu said Russia was waging “hybrid warfare” against her country using  economic pressure and propaganda.

The aim was to “destabilize society” and “bring people into the streets to change the government and create a pro-Russian government”, she said.

She asked for help on air surveillance and defense, but said she saw no imminent threat of invasion. Last week Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told EU leaders in Brussels that his country has intercepted plans by Russian intelligence to “break the democracy of Moldova and establish control over Moldova”.

Moldova’s intelligence service subsequently said that it had identified “subversive activities, aimed to undermine the Republic of Moldova, destabilize and violate public order”.

Russia has denied those claims. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said last week that the allegations were “absolutely unfounded and unsubstantiated”.

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