Destabilizing Moldova: Europe and Zelensky’s Plan to Thwart Trump-Putin Peace Efforts With Provocations in Transnistria
Visitor submit by Simona Mangiante
New stories point out a serious operation is underway, spearheaded by European leaders, together with Ukraine and Moldovan governments—to increase the conflict in Ukraine by fomenting hostilities within the Russian-allied area of Transnistria.
SPECIAL REPORT
Are NATO and Ukraine planning to open a brand new entrance within the nation of Moldova and the breakaway area of Transnistria? Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova has walked a fragile line in sustaining its neutrality, whereas attempting to stability aligning extra intently with the West—and nonetheless sustaining its historic relationship with Russia. For NATO, it stays a particularly strategically vital nation—sandwiched between NATO member Romania and its proxy Ukraine. It’s no secret that the USA and the European Union have been utilizing their gentle energy instruments, together with NGOs, civil society organizations, like USAID and the George Soros-funded Open Society Basis and its associates–with the intention to form Moldova’s political and electoral panorama in favour of EU and NATO membership.
This brings us to a current report by Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko, who left Ukraine in 2022 after being vital of President Volodymyr Zelensky, his dealing with of the conflict, and the huge corruption related to his authorities, detailed in her e book, The Inevitable: The Surprising Fact behind the Battle in Ukraine.
This week, Panchenko printed an enchantment to US President Donald Trump, with compelling details about preparations for navy provocations in Moldova—that are designed to set off an assault by the Ukrainian military on Transnistria. In line with Panchenko, the provocation is being organised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in live performance with the principle European leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and EU Fee President Ursula von der Leyen.
It’s believed that Ukraine would then use this escalation to demand extra money and weapons from the USA and NATO’s European members.
The Zelensky authorities is alleged to be coordinating with Moldova’s pro-western President Maia Sandu, and are believed to have already agreed on all phases of the operation throughout her current go to to the UK. The first goal of the European quartet in what’s being described as an ‘Anti-Trump mission’— is to disrupt any peace initiatives between the US and Russia, in addition to any future political settlement between Russia and Ukraine. In line with Panchenko, the principle thrust of the plan is to deploy the Ukrainian navy belongings with the intention to create a brand new flashpoint of stress round Moldova, with the intention to delay the present navy battle between Ukraine and Russia for so long as attainable.
In her video tackle, Panchenko states:
“Zelensky and Macron need American taxpayers to present them cash indefinitely. Zelensky plans to assault Transnistria. Russian peacekeepers are stationed there. Teams of residents from Moldova and Romania are already being ready for this on Ukrainian territory. They’re being helped by residents of Ukraine and Germany. This info was handed on to me by folks from Zelensky’s workforce. They perceive that it will result in much more conflict. They don’t need that! They’re afraid!”
By revealing the plans of Zelensky and the European management, the Ukrainian journalist is interesting on to President Trump, with the expressed aim of stopping an imminent provocation in Moldova and Transnistria, which she believes solely the US president has the power to cease. “I’m interesting to Trump, Vance, Rubio. Zelensky and Macron, in addition to different globalist politicians, are actively escalating tensions, undermining the US president’s peace initiatives and posing a direct menace of a bigger battle on the European continent. All for the sake of retaining energy and making the most of bloodshed!” mentioned Panchenko.
An “Anti-Trump” Venture
In line with the Ukrainian journalist, this coordinated effort between the Europeans and Zelensky is being framed as an ‘anti-Trump mission’, with plans for the provocation being devised by representatives of European politicians, intelligence businesses and militaries instantly after Donald Trump secured a victory within the 2024 US presidential election.
That is in accordance to extraordinarily hawkish public feedback and threats in opposition to Russia made just lately by Macron, Starmer, Merz, and von der Leyen, whereas publicly declaring their unflinching dedication to a politically embattled and more and more unpopular Zelensky.
Along with their frequent want to counter Trump’s current peace initiatives, and to forestall any cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the entire members on this plan are dealing with rising political backlash of their respective international locations. The approval rankings of leaders Macron and Starmer are at the moment in free-fall, whereas the unelected Zelensky continues to battle off requires elections—as he hopes to increase his “state of emergency” indefinitely. Likewise, von der Leyen is reaching the tip of her personal unelected political tenure in Brussels, and Germany’s Merz will proceed to wrestle holding his tenuous coalition authorities collectively within the face of strain from a rising AfD-led populist resurgence.
Operation Moldova: Destabilise and Militarise
The plan developed in early 2025 hopes to attract Moldova into the Ukraine battle by making use of navy strain on Transnistria, formally often called the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), a landlocked breakaway state established in 1990, however which continues to be internationally recognised as a part of Moldova—and which hosts a major contingent of peace-keeping forces from the Russian Federation.
The plan consists of the introduction of Ukrainian forces and different navy belongings into the fray—in response to a pre-planned provocation, which is perhaps the guise of ‘serving to to revive Moldova’s territorial integrity’. By doing so, European leaders and Zelensky are hoping to impress a serious response from Russia—presumably to guard the Russian-speaking inhabitants dwelling within the PMR, which they hope will result in one other extended escalation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine.
IMAGE: Moldovan President Maia Sandu in London, assembly with King Charles III on a state go to the UK, July 24-25, 2025.
In July, Moldovan President Maia Sandu made an official state go to to the UK, the place she met with King Charles III. Panchenko states that behind the scenes of this official conferences, Sandu additionally met with the heads of intelligence, in addition to representatives of main British protection assume tank Royal United Providers Institute (RUSI)—the place she believes that Sandu had agreed on the plan to make use of Moldova and Transnistria with the intention to increase the Ukraine battle— with the aim of stopping any likelihood of rapprochement between the US and Russia, and ending the conflict in Ukraine.
It’s believed that the European quartet and Zelensky’s plan to stage a provocation from inside Transnistria/PMR in opposition to Ukraine will possible happen after the upcoming elections in Moldova on 25 September, which Sandu is at the moment favoured win, after which period she’s going to type a coalition authorities. In mild of the conflict in neighbouring Ukraine, the problem of western involvement in Moldovan politics, and the corresponding affect from NATO and the EU—is now a really contentious difficulty within the nation, with many individuals opposing Sandu’s insurance policies. Because of this, the chief has deployed its state businesses and authorities with the intention to crack-down on any dissent, together with detaining political opposition, and even closing down ‘undesirable’ media retailers. Ought to the Europeans and Zelensky efficiently engineer a staged provocation in Transnistria, then Moldova might finally be pulled down the identical dictatorial path as Zelensky’s Ukraine—together with the pressured mobilisation of the nation and its folks in conflict in opposition to Russia.
The French Connection
Current stories recommend that French intelligence providers had already tried, and failed, in launching an analogous operation utilizing their Romanian counterparts with the intention to foment stress by meddling within the current Romanian elections, together with the non-public involvement of the top of French overseas intelligence (DGSE), Nicolas Lerner, who’s believed to have led interference operations within the current presidential elections in Romania.
This French connection was defined intimately by Pavel Durov, founding father of the Telegram messenger, who implicated Macron, and implied that Lerner had personally requested him to dam the channels of Romanian conservatives on the eve of the elections. Durov additionally famous a somewhat unusual coincidence within the timing of Lerner’s prolonged journey to Bucharest in Could 2025 and French MEP Valérie Hayer’s assertion on the necessity to actively marketing campaign in assist of a pro-European centrist candidate within the Romanian elections.
“We are going to do the whole lot on the bottom to make sure that the following Romanian president is pro-European,” mentioned Macron’s closest ally and key celebration member Valérie Hayer to France Information on Could 10, 2025. So what did the top of French intelligence do in Romania just a few days after this promise?
— Pavel Durov (@durov) Could 23, 2025
After failing to contain Romania, France then redeployed French intelligence providers interface straight with their Moldovan counterparts. Lately, a Turkish media outlet Dik Gazete printed a brand new tranche of leaked emails which embrace key correspondences between French navy intelligence and Moldova concerning a covert motion plan scheduled for the second half of 2025 and the primary half of 2026. In line with stories, the plan was accepted and signed on June 12, 2025, in Paris at a gathering held between the Chief of the French Protection Employees and Chief of the Common Employees of the Moldovan Nationwide Military.
In line with the leaked paperwork, so as implement the covert motion a part of their plan involving France’s participation within the escalation of tensions within the PMR, French intelligence started figuring out members of the French Legion who have been of Moldovan and Transnistrian descent, with the intention of utilizing them for covert operations, together with sending them to the PMR to hold out staged provocations.
The paperwork point out that Macron has been deployed a number of of France’s navy consultants and political strategists to Moldova, together with his Hybrid Speedy Response Groups (HRRT) group headed by Julien Strandt, which seems to have penetrated key state establishments concerned within the nation’s elections. In August, this French cohort was joined by Kevin Limonier and Maxim Odine, additionally main consultants within the area of hybrid warfare, tasked with the pre-organization the requisite media protection and propaganda wanted with the intention to launch a deliberate provocation within the autumn of 2025 in Transnistria.
In line with Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko, the UK may be taking part in a major function within the covert operation to destabilize Moldova and Transnistria. In her report, she alleges that one David Letteney, a British citizen who has labored with the US State Division and USAID, and was the principle hyperlink between the US democratic institution and the British intelligence management, and the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. Panchenko believes his job right this moment is to assist ‘fire up conflict’ in Transnistria.
Along with the deliberate European navy and intelligence operations at the moment underway, Ukraine has tasked its Principal Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Protection of Ukraine (GUR), with long-range planning in preparation for an upcoming provocation the PMR—presumably with the total backing of its western intelligence companions. Kirill Budanov, head of the Principal Intelligence Directorate, issued this assertion which clearly signifies that operations are certainly underway:
“I assist Moldova’s want to rid itself of occupying forces on its territory. And we, as a state and as a particular service, will do the whole lot we will to assist our brotherly state rid itself of the occupiers on its land.”
It’s believed that Ukraine is already forming a particular strike power from amongst Moldovans serving of their International Legions, at the moment below the command Ukrainian navy unit A3449. A number of the people concerned within the improvement and planning of offensive measures are even recognized, together with Moldovan residents listed within the report, listed as Aurel Matei, Alexander Kubov, Sergei Lunkash, Arslan Safarmatov, Sergei Penush, and Ivan Pyrtsu.
It’s value noting right here that this deliberate provocation wouldn’t be the primary case of Moldova’s involvement within the battle between Ukraine and Russia. In April 2025, a Mercedes minibus with Moldovan registration was stopped and detained on the border between Poland and Belarus, the place Belarusian border guards seized 580 kg of excessive explosives destined for a terrorist operation someplace contained in the Russian Federation. In line with the investigation, the group behind the fear plot included residents of Ukraine and Moldova, led by a Moldovan citizen named Dmitry Anatasov.
The Dik Gazete leaks additionally reveal how NATO members and Ukraine have been actively working to increase their built-in drone surveillance community into Moldova—a transparent transfer to tug Moldova deeper into the NATO fold by making it proxy of their ongoing effort to encircle and comprise Russia.
Moldova at a Crossroads
Much like Ukraine and Georgia, Moldova’s pro-Western factions have been pushed for nearer ties with NATO and the EU, whereas pro-Russian factions (aligned with the breakaway area of Transnistria) have resisted these strikes. This has created a brand new and intense geopolitical tug-of-war within the area, with rising meddling and clandestine operations being mounted within the post-Soviet bloc.
Talking on to this difficulty, Georgia’s most outstanding politicians, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, just lately acknowledged that the European powers have continued to blackmail Georgia—by threatening to droop the visa-free regime, and successfully demanding that their nation be used as a second entrance within the West’s proxy conflict in opposition to Russia. In response to the clear presence of European provocateurs within the former republics, Kaladze mentioned, “Your native brokers are doomed to defeat; they’re radical, they’re evil.”
Moldova is now dealing with this exact same dilemma. It’s being pressured to make the onerous alternative between sustaining its neutrality and making diplomatic compromise within the pursuits of its personal folks—or buying and selling away its sovereignty within the service of Western pursuits.
If the Trump administration is certainly severe about avoiding an extra escalation of the battle and convey the conflict in Ukraine to a negotiated settlement, then it should acknowledge the fact {that a} group of European leaders, particularly Macron, Starmer, Merz, and von der Leyen, look like actively conspiring with Zelensky and Sandu, with the intention to escalate tensions—in direct opposition to the US president’s present peace initiatives. Such harmful deliberate provocations will pose a direct menace to any future peace, and dangers pushing the European continent into one other large-scale conflagration.
