Head of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine: Russia is preparing coup in Moldova

Russia plans to make a coup in Moldova, said the secretary of the National Security and Defense Service Alexei Danilov, he is quoted by Ukrainian media.

“Let’s not say that Moldova has nothing happened. There is now a change in the country’s leadership, the power block is intensifying as much as possible,” Danilov said.

Danilov said that Ukrainian intelligence warned Moldova that Russia in the near future supposedly intends to arrange a coup there.

According to Danilov, Russia sent Chechen rescuers to Turkey, who can later be in Chisinau. “We are now closely tracking so that it does not happen that these“ rescuers ”will be in Chisinau. We know their surnames and names,” he added.

Ukrainian media remind that after earthquakes in Turkey, Russia sent a team of rescuers to this country. She is led by the adviser to the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Daniil Martynov, who previously held the position of assistant to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for the power unit and the deputy head of the Office of the Russian Guard in Chechnya. At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he led the seizure of the Borodyansk psychoneurological boarding school in the Kyiv region. In August 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine officially called Martynov accused under the article of the Criminal Code to violate the laws and customs of war and cruelty to prisoners of war or civilian population.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukrainian intelligence intercepted Russian documents indicating the plans of the Russian Federation to destabilize the situation in Moldova. The intelligence and security service of Moldova (SIB) confirmed the receipt of such information from Ukrainian intelligence.