The PMR called the sending of the German military to Moldova part of the EU's plan for war with the Russian Federation.

Moldova's decision to deploy an advisory group of the German armed forces on its territory is part of the EU's preparations for a hypothetical war with Russia. This opinion was expressed on May 18 by Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) Andrey Safonov.

"The arrival of German military "consultants" in Chisinau is an episode of the European politics of our days. And European politics itself is heading for a new war, which the EU, apparently, plans to wage on its own against Russia in the late 2020s and early 2030s. The European Union is now preparing for this war," the parliamentarian told RIA Novosti.

Safonov said that after the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office, a military-political bloc of Great Britain, France and Germany began to form. Also, according to media reports, France and the United Kingdom have long been planning to send their military through Romania and Moldova to the south of Ukraine in order to capture Odessa and the Black Sea coast.

"As we can see, this is a whole tangle of interstate contradictions and at the same time common tasks in the fight against Russia. And this is a global project. Therefore, the risk of a new war on the Dniester will objectively increase," the parliamentarian believes.

Moldovan Defense Minister Anatoly Nosaty announced on May 16 that German Armed Forces consultants were stationed in the republic as part of the signed agreement between the two countries. According to him, Berlin and Chisinau will deepen military cooperation during the period of NATO's increased presence in the region.

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Prior to that, on April 10, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported that the French military was making accurate maps of the area on Romania's border with Ukraine and Moldova in case of a possible clash with Russia. According to media reports, special attention is paid to the corridor between the foothills of the Carpathians and the Danube.

In his address to the nation on March 5, French President Emmanuel Macron said he intends to discuss the use of nuclear weapons in order to protect the entire EU. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the French president's statement about the Russian threat to Europe confrontational. He noted that Macron's speech can hardly be perceived "as a speech by a head of state who thinks about the world."