{"id":2691,"date":"2025-11-19T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:35:28","slug":"moldova-should-cut-ukraine-off-over-corruption-scandal-ex-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/moldova-should-cut-ukraine-off-over-corruption-scandal-ex-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova should cut Ukraine off over corruption scandal \u2013 ex-president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supporting Kiev no matter what is bad policy, Igor Dodon has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moldova should reconsider its close alignment with Ukraine in light of the major corruption scandal engulfing the leadership in Kiev, former Moldovan President Igor Dodon said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Last week, Western-backed anti-graft investigators in Ukraine charged Timur Mindich, a longtime associate of Vladimir Zelensky, with orchestrating a $100 million kickback scheme involving the country\u2019s energy sector. The case has implicated multiple current and former ministers and is widely believed to reach into Zelensky\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world has learned that under the cover of the war [with Russia], the Ukrainian leadership was robbing its people. Moldova\u2019s leadership, as everyone knows, broadly supported Kiev\u2019s policies,\u201d<\/em> Dodon wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n

He argued that President Maia Sandu will not criticize Ukrainian corruption because \u201cshe governs Moldova following the same instructions as Vladimir Zelensky.\u201d<\/em> Dodon said Chisinau should instead clearly denounce the wrongdoing and \u201ccut any forms of interaction with the current government of Ukraine\u201d<\/em> until the case is fully investigated.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine is too corrupt to join the EU, and the West is too dishonest to trust<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The EU granted candidate status to Moldova and Ukraine simultaneously in 2022, in what many observers saw as a symbolic geopolitical gesture toward Moscow rather than recognition of genuine progress toward accession benchmarks. Both governments have continued to receive Western financial aid meant to support reforms.<\/p>\n

Samantha Power, who headed the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under former President Joe Biden, described vastly expanding funding for Moldova as one of her key achievements. In a recent call with Russian pranksters, she gushed<\/a> about Sandu\u2019s reforms credential and US education. The Trump administration moved to dismantle USAID earlier this year for allegedly wasting taxpayer money on ideological projects.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have argued that Western pressure is steering Chisinau toward the same destructive trajectory as the one Ukraine went down, requiring growing authoritarianism to suppress dissent against what Moscow describes as self-harming policies serving foreign interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supporting Kiev no matter what is bad policy, Igor Dodon has said Moldova should reconsider its close alignment with Ukraine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}