After abruptly ousting her Prime Minister last week and replacing her with a designate approved by the Western security apparatus, the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, working in coordination with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is moving to bring her country into the conflict in the neighboring country. This is causing serious consternation in the country as Moldova is bound to neutrality by its constitution.
With relations worsening between Hungary and the Zelensky Regime in Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó issued an official statement on Friday denouncing Kiev’s mistreatment of ethnic minorities, in particular the Hungarians living in the Transcarpathia region occupied by the Soviets after World War II and forcibly annexed to Ukraine.
What is being called one of the deadliest earthquakes of this century left over 25,000 dead so far and 80,000 injured, mostly in Turkey. 870,000 people are in urgent need of food. The rescue teams are still working around the clock and finding survivors. Syria is being overlooked.
Internal political struggles within the pro-Western government in Chișinău have led to the resignation of Prime Minister Natalia Gavriliță. President Maia Sandu quickly named her National Security Advisor Dorin Recean as Prime Minister designate. He will have fifteen days to form a new government.
According to Ukrainian officials, Friday saw more of the eerily consistent nationwide missile strikes that Russia has been conducting across the country for months. However, there was a noticeable uptick in the number of strikes Russia conducted on Friday with Moscow firing up to 35 S-300 missiles at Zaporizhzhia and the Kharkiv region. The escalated strikes caused additional power outages overnight across the country.