Washington harbours “deep concern” that Russia is working to destabilise Moldova, the US’s top diplomat has said, adding his voice to warnings that Moscow is seeking to overthrow the government of the eastern European nation.
Speaking after a meeting with Moldovan president Maia Sandu on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said Washington was alarmed by “some of the plotting that we’ve seen coming from Russia to try to destabilise the government”.
Blinken added that the US would continue to “stand strongly with Moldova in support of its security, its independence, its territorial integrity”.