Kuleba on the Case of Chaus: Russia Wants to Embroil Ukraine and Moldova

The pro-Russian media distortedly cover the situation with the alleged abduction of the former Ukrainian judge Nikolai Chaus in Moldova, and Russia is trying to use it to harm the Ukrainian-Moldovan relations. This stated Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at a briefing on Tuesday, May 18, commenting on the video released with Chaus on Telegram, nokta.md reported with reference to hromadske.ua According to Kuleba, the publication of the video coincided with the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, Aureliu Ciocoi. However, according to him, 90% of the conversation with the Moldovan colleague was devoted to "constructive issues of our relationship." “This video is a “newly discovered circumstance” and changes the picture, as the Moldovan and largely pro-Russian media wrote about in recent weeks, imposing a slightly different picture of reality on the Moldovan opinion,” the minister said. According to Kuleba, he and the Moldovan Foreign Minister agreed that "the situation with Chaus should in no case be used by a third party, namely the Russian Federation, in order to embroil Ukraine with Moldova and create tension in our relations."