Overview
- Officials say a GRU‑linked network was dismantled after nationwide searches, with suspects accused of planning mass unrest tied to the election.
- Authorities report more than 100 Moldovans were trained in Serbia by Russian instructors to use firearms and attack police, with recruits paid €400 each.
- President Maia Sandu alleges the Kremlin is spending hundreds of millions of euros to buy votes and spread disinformation to sway the result.
- The National Anti‑Corruption Centre and Chișinău prosecutors conducted separate raids in cases involving suspected illegal party financing, money laundering and voter bribery, leading to at least one arrest.
- Pro‑Russian leader Igor Dodon says searches targeted his allies and calls the actions intimidation, as polls indicate PAS may lead but could require partners to govern.