2023-09-26 03:32:18
Moldova will be able to count on the support of France. Chisinau, which lives in fear of Russian aggression, has in fact started negotiating a defense agreement with Paris, we learned on Monday from the office of the French Minister of the Armed Forces traveling to the Moldovan capital.
“France will continue to stand alongside the Moldovans in the face of any attempt at destabilization,” indicated the minister’s office at the end of Sébastien Lecornu’s visit. Bordering Ukraine, Moldova includes Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist region of 300,000 inhabitants in the east of the country.
Missile fragments found in Transnistria
During his trip, the French minister and his counterpart Anatolie Nosatîi signed “a letter of intent to strengthen defense cooperation and assist Moldova in the modernization of its military tools”, announced Sébastien Lecornu on the social network Chisinau also announced the acquisition of a Ground Master 200 (GM 200) radar. This radar, already ordered by kyiv and produced by Thales, with a range of 250 kilometers, should make it possible to strengthen the surveillance of Moldovan airspace.
“Beyond that, we are going to conduct an audit of air defense means to help strengthen the security of Moldovan skies,” said Sébastien Lecornu. On Monday, missile fragments were found in Transnistria, authorities announced, without making a link at this stage with a new Russian attack in neighboring southern Ukraine.
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