As soon as Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine nearly one year ago, there have been fears of a larger, possibly global conflict to come.
Nothing about the ensuing 11+ months has changed that and, in many ways, those concerns have only been exacerbated by the absolutely manic situation on the eastern edge of Europe.
With the war dragging on into its second year in the coming days, Ukraine is reporting the discovery of documents that suggest Russia is planning to push their invasion far past Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country has intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova, and Moldovan intelligence confirmed the claim.
Speaking to European Union leaders in Brussels, Zelenskyy said he recently told Moldovan President Maia Sandu about the alleged scheme.
“I have informed her that we have intercepted the plan of the destruction of Moldova by the Russian intelligence,” Zelenskyy said through a translator. He said the documents showed “who, when and how” the plan would “break the democracy of Moldova and establish control over Moldova.”
Zelenskyy said the plan was very similar to the one devised by Russia to take over Ukraine. He added that he did not know whether Moscow ultimately ordered the plan to be carried out.
There was corroboration, too.
After Zelenskyy’s comments, Moldova’s Intelligence and Security Service released a statement confirming it has received “respective information from our Ukrainian partners” and said it has also identified “subversive activities, aimed to undermine the Republic of Moldova, destabilize and violate public order.”
“At the moment, we cannot provide more details as there is a risk of jeopardizing various ongoing operational activities,” the statement read, adding that all of Moldova’s state institutions “are working at full capacity and will not allow these challenges to happen.”
This isn’t the first time that an invasion of Moldova has been speculated about during the conflict, but this is the first hard evidence that the Kremlin had been considering it.
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