Triumphal arch in Chisinau. File photoCHISINAU, Apr 20Russian Ambassador to Moldova Oleg Vasnetsov will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country because of the words addressed to the President of the Republic Maia Sandu by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said the head of the press service of the Moldovan Foreign Ministry, Daniel Voda. Earlier, Zakharova said that Sandu's statements about St. ribbon are unacceptable, as is the decision of Chisinau to ban this symbol. Assessing Sandu's statement that the place of such symbols as the St. George ribbon is «in the trash can of history,» Zakharova said that a person who allows such words «will go to these dumps of history himself.» 
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Sandu's statements about the St. George ribbon unacceptable state by the official representative of Russian diplomacy, the Foreign Ministry ordered to call the Russian Ambassador to Moldova Oleg Vasnetsov,» Voda wrote on his Facebook page *. He cited the text of the speech of the head of Moldova in Russian, in which she says that «we must remember victory of civilization over fascism and Nazism», «we are obliged to honor the fallen and keep the memory of the main tragedy of the twentieth century — the Second World War.» «We emphasize that the decisions recently adopted in the Parliament of Moldova represent the sovereign right of our country. calling on the Russian side not to interfere in democratic, legal and internal process of our country,” added Voda. In Moldova, on April 20, the ban on the St. George ribbon and the symbols V and Z came into force. The St. George ribbon consists of three black and two orange stripes, it is an integral part of many military awards of the Russian empires, the USSR and the Russian Federation. At the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014, this symbol was used by militia fighters and volunteers who fought on the side of the DPR and LPR against the Ukrainian security forces. The Latin letters Z and V are painted on the sides of Russian military equipment participating in the military operation in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. In Russia, the letter Z has already become an unofficial symbol of support for the operation.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist. will be punished for wearing the St. George ribbon on Victory Day
