The head of the Security Service of Moldova said that Russia is "planning an invasion in early 2023"
Russia plans to launch a military invasion of Moldova in the first half of 2023. The timing of the implementation of this scenario directly depends on the situation in the theater of military operations in Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Information and Security Service of Moldova, Alexandru Musteata.
In an interview for the TVR Moldova television company, the head of the country's Security Service noted that he had information about several possible scenarios that Russia could implement as part of the invasion of Moldova. They include both an invasion through the north of Ukraine in the direction of Moldova, and an invasion from Transnistria.
Through the north of Ukraine, how is it? That is, through hundreds of kilometers on foot march exactly to the Moldovan borders? ..
According to the official, the attack on Moldova is only a matter of time and will take place in the first months of 2023. He sees the goal of the military operation as a connection with the Russian garrison stationed on the territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and gaining access to one of the largest ammunition depots in the world, located in the village of Kolbasna.
Mustiata also added that the implementation and development of this scenario directly depends on the development of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Addresscu, in response to Musteata's statement, said that, in his opinion, the voiced fears were unfounded and there was no threat of a Russian invasion of Moldova. Such a semantic dissonance in the statements of Moldovan officials.
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