President of Moldova Maia Sandu. Archive photoCHISINAU, June 24Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that she has no information that Russia allegedly plans to attack the republic in the near future. «We have no information that the Russian Federation plans to attack Moldova. The information that we have gives us a certain degree of security, but we do not we know what will happen, for example, in six months,” Sandu said on the Prime TV channel in response to a request to comment on rumors about the possibility of such a scenario. She also noted that Russian-speaking citizens are not oppressed in the country. “We respect the Russian-speaking citizens of Moldova, we want them to feel good, no one hurts their rights and freedoms,» Sandu stressed. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. The United States and allies reacted by imposing numerous sanctions against Moscow and are providing large-scale defense assistance to Kyiv. The Russian Federation previously sent a note to all countries, including the United States, due to the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. for reforms on the way to the European Union
