Russia Issues Thinly Veiled Threat at Moldova After EU Membership Decision – By Paul D. Shinkman (US News) / June 24, 2022
The potency of the Kremlin’s latest warnings, however, have taken on a new meaning as its flawed invasion of Ukraine devolves into a grinding war of attrition.
Russia, in the midst of a bloody war of attrition in Ukraine, issued thinly veiled threats on Friday to the former Soviet republic of Moldova after the European Union approved it and Ukraine for potential membership in the bloc.
“There is nothing to say about Ukraine here, everything is clear there, but now we see Moldova, which wants to become Europeans more than the Europeans themselves,” the Kremlin’s Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday morning. He added that Moldova “for some reason associates this candidate status with anti-Russianness. The more they become anti-Russian, they think that the more Europeans should like them.”
“We would really not want this to happen,” the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said, according to a translation of his remarks.
