MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. Today’s Ukraine is a failed country that cannot maintain its own political and economic viability, with Moldova following the same path as Ukraine, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, said.

"We witness divisions and destabilization wherever the West has extended its tentacles. The most striking example is Ukraine. Tempted by the so-called European integration, it has turned into the United States’ main anti-Russian 'battering ram'," Naryshkin told a meeting of senior security officers and intelligence chiefs from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow. "As a result, Ukraine today is a failed state that cannot maintain its existence as a viable political or economic entity. And Moldova is following in its footsteps," he maintained.

The policies of Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s totalitarian regime have caused "a catastrophic polarization in society," the SVR chief stressed. The administrative resources and votes of the Moldovan diaspora in Europe determined the outcome of the recent election, he argued. "The election was won by the narrowest margin, and the ire of the deceived half of the population jeopardizes Chisinau’s further European integration and lays a time bomb beneath the integrity of the Moldovan state," Naryshkin concluded.

On November 4, Moldova’s incumbent president Sandu won the presidential runoff with 55.33% of the vote. Her rival, former Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo, scored 44.67%, the Central Election Commission said after processing 100% of ballots. However, the country’s Constitutional Court will announce its verdict on the presidential mandate on November 28.