“Neutrality does not protect against missiles, but it must be defended and therefore we are obligated to defend our airspace,” Grosso told Radio Chisinau.
We have benefited from the European Union’s €40 million program, including for this purpose [defesa do espaço aéreo]🇧🇷 We are also talking with our Ukrainian and Romanian partners because they have much better systems, Igor Grosso said in a TV show broadcast by the Journal channel.
Grosso described the moment as “complicated”, and referred to two recent incidents, in which Russian missiles entered the airspace of Moldova, one of which landed in Neslavca, in the north of the country, next to the border with Ukraine.
The Republic of Moldova has also been the target of unprecedented cyberattacks since last fall.
We have never seen such a wave of attacks and not only correspondence from the authorities, but entire computer systems were targeted. “Our assessments show that they came from the Russian Federation,” said the head of the Moldovan legislature.
Grosso also announced that a bill on the Security and Intelligence Service would enter Parliament, which would provide additional tools in the fight against espionage.
The Republic of Moldova is “full of spies for the Russian Federation,” Grosso said, adding that there will be new legislative amendments that will toughen penalties for treason and other related crimes.
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