Russia organized training camps in Serbia, Bosnia, and Moscow where operatives linked to Russia's GRU trained pro-Russian Moldovans in disruptive tactics including breaking police cordons, setting fires, and election interference. The Kremlin also paid hundreds of Orthodox Moldovan priests to recruit voters and spread Russian narratives, alongside spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a sophisticated vote-buying scheme driven by a Moldovan billionaire in exile and coordinated from Skolkovo. Moldova, with a population around three million, holds strategic importance for Russian President Vladimir Putin. These efforts represent one of the most extensive plots by Russia to undermine Western-leaning governments outside Ukraine according to intelligence officials from three countries.

Russia organized training camps in Serbia, Bosnia, and Moscow where operatives linked to Russia's GRU trained pro-Russian Moldovans in disruptive tactics including breaking police cordons, setting fires, and election interference. The Kremlin also paid hundreds of Orthodox Moldovan priests to recruit voters and spread Russian narratives, alongside spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a sophisticated vote-buying scheme driven by a Moldovan billionaire in exile and coordinated from Skolkovo. Moldova, with a population around three million, holds strategic importance for Russian President Vladimir Putin. These efforts represent one of the most extensive plots by Russia to undermine Western-leaning governments outside Ukraine according to intelligence officials from three countries.