Moldova looks like fair game to Vladimir Putin. It always has.

Russia is using “very similar” rhetoric towards Moldova as it did before its invasion of Ukraine and this is possibly to set conditions to justify a future Russian invasion of Moldova.

Sergei Lavrov has been claiming that the US and EU control the Moldovan government. He also stated that there are about 200,000 Russian citizens in Transnistria, and that Russia is “concerned about their fate” and “will not allow them to become victims of another Western adventure.”