CHISINAU, July 31. /TASS/. Moldova’s Information and Security Service (SIB) said on Monday it is terminating its partnership agreement with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and plans to withdraw from the cooperation agreement with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

"Following relevant legal procedures, the SIB has terminated its partnership agreement with Russia’s FSB. Official notifications have been sent to the Russian authorities. At the same time, the SIB has initiated, via the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the withdrawal from the agreement on cooperation with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service," it said.

According to the SIB, cooperation with Russian special services was stopped after February 24, 2022 and these agreements "no longer meet Moldova’s national interests or its security interests." Moreover, it claimed that Russia allegedly used these agreements "to justify the presence of Russian special services" in the Transnistrian region and now Moldova wants to put an end to this.

Alexandru Musteata, an expert of the Soros Foundation project, former employee of NATO’s information center in Chisinau and a former security adviser to ex-Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, was appointed director of the Moldovan Information and Security Service last summer.