The Republic of Moldova and Ukraine have a common enemy – the Russian Federation. The latter uses any occasion to control particular internal processes in the post-Soviet countries, including in Moldova and Ukraine. Both of the states fight against the Kremlin, but they should combine forces for better effects, said the invitees to a roundtable meeting entitled “Russian Influence on the Situation in Moldova: Political and Security Aspect”, IPN reports.
Dmitrii Levus, of the public association “Yantarnyi Puti” (“Amber Path”), noted that the key problem is the influence of the Russian factor upon the two countries, which is aimed at limiting the European integration by the war waged by Russia in Ukraine and by occupying the Transnistrian region of Moldova. The principal goal of the Kremlin is to cause chaos.
Director of the Accent Charitable Foundation Oleg Lisnii said that Russia manifests particular psychological complexes, including the Napoleon complex, but this is not the classical one, but is geopolitical in character. Russia suffers because it lost the status of superpower and thus tries by any means to prove to the whole world and to its sworn enemy, the U.S., that it can again compete. Russia aims to achieve this by controlling post-Soviet countries, but this means that Moldova, and Ukraine too, should get ready as they are in a real risk zone. Russia can anytime attack and this attack can be political and military too.
Andrei Andrievski, editor of the portal AVA.MD, said that Moldova is much more affected by the external influence of Russia, while Ukraine is affected less as it learned to defend itself, while Moldova didn’t do it. Russia corrupts the Republic of Moldova by corrupting the political class, the media, opinion leaders. Russia does not need full control over the Republic of Moldova, as in the Transnistrian region. It is much more suitable for it to see permanent chaos here. A common Moldovan-Ukrainian strategy for a particular period of time is needed. This document should be designed by experts in security and not only.
Political analyst Anatol Țaranu said Moldova and Ukraine have many common interests. The Russian Federation did so that it drew the interests of the two states much closer. This is related to Russia’s aggressive policy in Ukraine and Moldova, in the eastern region of Ukraine and in the Transnistrian region. The Republic of Moldova lost the war with this country after the conflict in the Transnistrian region, but Ukraine didn’t lose the war staged by Russia on its territory. Time has come for Moldova and Ukraine to sign a new special relations agreement that would define principled things.
MP Oazu Nantoi noted that theater of the absurd is witnessed in Moldova when it comes to the relations with Russia. The left bank of the Nistru was occupied by the Russian Federation. At the same time, Moldova lost to Russia back on July 21, 1992, when that agreement between Snegur and Yeltsin was signed, by which Moldova agreed to authorize the illegal Russian troops as participants in the peacekeeping mission.
Ukrainian political researcher Nikolai Davydiuk stated that any problem in the relations between Moldova and Ukraine will be primarily to Russia’s advantage. There are now no divergences that would lead to particular misunderstandings. The fact that Moldova and Ukraine are in the same geopolitical boat and have two common enemies can only unite the two states. The common enemies are the Kremlin, with its ambitions, and poverty. Therefore, the task of the two countries is to combine forces as regards security policies, regional development and also political cooperation.
The roundtable meeting “Russian Influence on the Situation in Moldova: Political and Security Aspect” was staged by the Accent Charitable Foundation, the Public Research Center “Ukrainian Meridian” and the public initiative “Yantarnyi Puti”.
