PSRM presidential candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo says that as president of the country, he will establish and develop friendly relations with all development partners, first of all with neighbors – Ukraine, Romania, but also with development partners, the EU, the US, Russia and China. These statements were made during the electoral debates with his opponent in the second round of the elections, Maia Sandu, reports IPN.

Aleksandr Stoianoglo is confident that relations with Ukraine, including economic ones, will be closer than at present. “We support Ukraine in the war that is in the current time. We provide for the citizens of Ukraine the necessary humanitarian aid,” said Alexandr Stoianoglo, responding to Maia Sandu’s question about how he would build relations with Ukraine if he were to get the presidential mandate.

The PSRM candidate also said that Moldova’s relations with Ukraine at the moment are exclusively declarative and that he has only seen militaristic statements by the current government on the war in Ukraine and no peace and ceasefire initiatives.

Stoianoglo insisted that he was promoting a platform that would allow to look differently at the war in Ukraine, to establish good relations, bilateral relations that would be beneficial for both Ukraine and Moldova.

In this context, Maia Sandu replied that “those in Kiev know that Stoianoglo is ‘Moscow’s man’, and behind him is Igor Dodon, who says across the country that ‘наши ужее рядом’ (our people are already close)”. Sandu noted that at his election campaign launch event, Stoianoglo “did not find two words to say about the bomb attack on the hospital for children with cancer (in Ukraine), where there were children from Moldova”, which will not make him credible to establish good relations with Ukraine.