Moldovan President Maia Sandu reacted strongly to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s decree simplifying the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for Transnistrian residents, calling it a tool for mobilizing for war against Ukraine.
According to Ukrinform, Politico reported this.
Sandu suggested that Putin’s decree was one of Russia’s tactics—to threaten Moldova over its efforts to reintegrate Transnistria, which Moscow supports.
She added that “probably they [Russians] need more people to send to the war in Ukraine.”
“Since the war in Ukraine began, most of the people from the region took their Moldovan citizenship because they felt safer to have the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova and not the citizenship of Russia,” Sandu emphasized.
