Covert Russian Plot to Destabilize Moldova Exposes Europe’s Soft Underbelly
An investigation details how Russian military intelligence allegedly trained Moldovan activists in Serbia, Bosnia and Moscow to break police lines, set buildings on fire and tilt elections in favor of pro-Kremlin forces. For a small country wedged between Ukraine and the EU, Moldova’s internal politics are turning into a test of how far Moscow will go to fracture Europe from within.
Moldova, a country of just 2.6 million people sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, has become an outsized target in Moscow’s campaign to reshape Europe’s security order. A detailed investigation has laid out how operatives linked to Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, allegedly built and trained networks aimed at destabilizing the pro‑European government in Chișinău, not by tanks but by orchestrated unrest around elections. According to the findings, Russian-linked organizers ran training programs in Serbia, Bosnia and Russia itself for Moldovan activists sympathetic to Moscow. The curriculum reportedly included how to break police cordons, provoke confrontations with security forces and set government buildings on fire—tactics designed to turn protests into…
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