Moldovan President Maia Sandu responded to Putin's decree on simplifying the admission of Pridnestrovians to Russian citizenship. This is reported by Politico.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has simplified the process of obtaining citizenship for residents of Transnistria… Putin signed a decree on Friday allowing residents of the breakaway region of Moldova to obtain Russian citizenship without having to live in Russia and without the need to speak Russian. Sandu responded on Saturday, saying that "they probably need more people to be sent to war on Ukraine"," the publication says.
Sandu believes that one of the goals of this step is to threaten Moldova because of its attempts to reintegrate Transnistria, where Russian troops have been deployed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, most residents of the region have accepted Moldovan citizenship because they felt safe having Moldovan citizenship, not Russian," Sandu said at a security conference in Tallinn.
When asked if Putin could block Moldova's membership in the EU because of Transnistria, Sandu replied that "only the EU can decide whether Moldova can become a part of the EU." EU or not, Russia has nothing to do with it."
As EADaily reported, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, and Moldovan President Maya Sandu are concerned about the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on simplifying the granting of Russian citizenship to residents of Transnistria.
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