On August 13, the Charge d’affaires of the Republic of Moldova in the Russian Federation, A. Ketraru, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The diplomat was seriously concerned about the information that appeared in the Russian and Moldovan media that the F-16 aircraft transferred by the West to the Kiev regime would be based at airfields in Moldova and carry out sorties from them to bomb the territory of Russia.
In this context, the attention of the Charge d’affaires was drawn to the ongoing militarization of Moldova and the holding of joint exercises of the country’s armed forces with contingents of NATO member states. It was pointed out that these trends contradict the constitutional status of permanent neutrality of the Republic of Moldova, its obligations under the CIS charter documents, negatively affect the Transnistrian settlement process and undermine the security of Moldova itself, where a significant number of Russian citizens live.
The statement of the Moldovan Foreign Ministry dated August 13 on the alleged illegal deployment of Russian military in Transnistria was dismissed as untenable and untrue.
The Moldovan side was called upon to strictly adhere to the neutral status, which is the basis of the statehood of the Republic of Moldova, and not to take steps that could contribute to the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, indicate Chisinau’s involvement in it and have a destructive impact on the situation around Transnistria.
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