UKRAINE OUGHT TO RECOGNIZE NEW MOLDOVAN GOVERNMENT - EUROPEAN TRUTH NEWSPAPER

The fact that Kiev authorities keep silence about their attitude to the new Moldovan Government may lead to damage for Ukraine in future, maintains editor of the Ukrainian portal "Ukrainian Truth" Sergey Sidorenko.

In the article "Why President Zelensky Should Call New Moldovan Premier?" he wrote that Ukraine is for already 5 consecutive years asking the West to build policy in relation to it on the basis of values, but not business interests or geopolitical agreements, but Ukraine risks to undermine all these efforts, when in international issues of critical importance it will start acting differently than demands from others.

"Germany, France and Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, Finland. The European Union as an organization, on behalf of all the member countries. Switzerland. Besides, the Russian Federation (it seems that we should not care about its opinion, but it is included in the list, this is reality). The most important - a separate statement was made by Romania, the other neighbor of Moldova and the Chisinau's key partner. Ukraine is absent from among them", the commentator wrote.

According to him, the previous authorities in Moldova have been suitable for Kiev in recent years.

"It is not about corruption and not even about the long-standing familiarity and common business past of Plahotniuc and Poroshenko (lately, Poroshenko has been quite skeptical about the informal "master of Moldova"). The thing is that Plahotniuc's Moldova though was very far from democracy, proved to be somehow efficient in retaining Russia", Sidorenco wrote.

Nevertheless, he maintains this was the very flip side of the coin.

"The image of a "fighter against Russians" does not hinder Plahotniuc's TV channel "Prime" to retranslate the non-news programs of the Russian propagandist "First Channel". The rapprochement of Chisinau with Europe has long been substituted by the distancing from it, while the very oligarch risks to soon fall under EU sanctions. Meanwhile, the pro-Russian forces in Moldova have been artificially fed, because Plahotniuc needed a bright, caricature pro-Russian enemy, which would be threatening the West", the author maintains.

According to him, Ukraine looks quite strange (if not shameful) against the background of other region's leaders, who already announced about recognition of the new Moldovan government.

"It is at least strange to keep the company of those who treat indulgently the attack on democracy in Moldova. One day, when we will be asking other countries for support, they will recall this to us. However, for those who prefer not the values, but pragmatism in foreign policy, I have an argument: the Kiev's silence in support to Plahotniuc not only does not help Ukraine now, but may lead to damage in future. It is difficult now to tell which will be the destiny of the recently-ruling Democratic Party, but personally Plahotniuc may for sure expect for serious problems. In any way, Moldova will change. The process has been launched. Nobody knows where it will lead, if these changes will be for better or for worst, but changes will definitely take place - this is the situation inside Moldova and around it", the author concludes.