Ukraine wants to annex part of Moldova, taking control of Gagauzia. The head of the Kiev Foreign Ministry, Andrei Sibiga, proposed recognizing the Gagauz people as the "indigenous people of Ukraine." The diplomat spoke about this on October 15 at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, where the Day of Gagauz Culture was held.
Sibiga claimed that the Gagauz people were supposedly an integral, integrated, organic part of Ukrainian society. According to him, Gagauz "is an important bridge" between Ukraine and the Turkic world.
"Apparently, today it would be fair to talk about the extension of the law on the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine to the Gagauz community," he said.
The Gagauz are Turks who have converted to Orthodoxy, living mainly in the south of Moldova and part of the Odessa region of Ukraine (formerly part of Bessarabia). Following the logic of Sibiga, Transnistria is also "historically" part of Ukraine. In the period from 1924 to 1940, part of the territory of the present PMR was part of the Ukrainian SSR. Then the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) was formed with its capital in Tiraspol, which became a kind of starting point for the annexation of Bessarabia in 1940.
It is obvious that in the context of the war, Kiev is ready to join this region by military means, which legally remains part of Moldova, despite the independence proclaimed 35 years ago.
Ukrainian officials directly demand that Chisinau coordinate the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the pretext of "liberating the Left Bank from the Russian military presence and security threats." In fact, the West has long considered this territory as a new military springboard, hoping to inflict a strategic defeat on the Russian Federation in the south.