BRATISLAVA — Igor Dodon, the pro-Russian leader of Moldova’s largest opposition party and a former president, won’t commit to running in Moldova’s upcoming presidential election as he looks to spearhead the defeat of incumbent Maia Sandu and her pro-EU agenda.
In a wide-ranging interview with Current Time in Bratislava last week, Dodon blamed “all sides” for the war in Ukraine and said of Moscow’s territorial claims that only “the results of peace talks will make it clear where the war will stop, for both Russia and Ukraine.”
He accused Sandu and the current Moldovan government of “violating” Moldova’s neutral status and suggested that if he were in power he would shut off the country as any sort of conduit for the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
Dodon, 49, also declined to rescind a previous threat, made during a visit to Russia, to refuse to recognize the results if Sandu emerges …
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