Moldovan President Maia Sandu told a British podcast she would vote for unification with neighboring European Union and NATO member Romania if a referendum were held.
The pro-European president has repeatedly warned of Russian meddling in the ex-Soviet republic of 2.4 million people, most of them Romanian-speakers, lying between Romania and Ukraine.
She told British podcast "The Rest is Politics" in an interview released Sunday that it was "getting more and more difficult for a small country like Moldova to survive as a democracy, as a sovereign country, and of course to resist Russia."
"If we have a referendum, I would vote for the unification with Romania," she said.
She, however, conceded that "looking at the polls ... there is not a majority of people today who would support the unification of Moldova with Romania."
