ISW: Russian agents in Moldova are trying to cancel Sandu's election victory
Kyiv • UNN
The Institute for the Study of War reports on attempts by Russian agents to discredit Maia Sandu's victory in the elections in Moldova. Pro-Russian politicians and oligarchs are spreading statements about the illegitimacy of the voting results.
On November 4, Russian and pro-Kremlin agents launched an information operation to discredit the victory of incumbent Moldovan President Maia Sandu in the presidential election. This is stated in a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), UNN reports.
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As noted in the report, the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova called the politician "an illegitimate president.
Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor, who has ties to the Kremlin, told Russia's state-run Rossiya-24 TV channel that the Moldovan opposition has "evidence" of massive fraud in Sandu's favor.
The pro-Kremlin former president of Moldova, Igor Dodon, told the TASS news agency that Sandu won only because of the votes of the Moldovan diaspora.
The Russian information space, including Russian military bloggers, repeated the words of Moldova's pro-Russian opposition that the elections in the country are controlled by "European bureaucrats" and that citizens have no influence on their outcome.
ISW has previously reported on Russia's systematic efforts to interfere in the elections in Moldova and to disrupt the referendum on the country's accession to the European Union and the victory of Maia Sandu,
