 Moldovan president, Russia wants to remake the Soviet Union. Moldovan president Maya Sandu believes that if Russia had successfully taken over Ukraine, it would have continued its expansion by bringing its troops to Moldova. Sandu said this in an interview with the Financial Times. I don't believe the Russians would have stopped at the border. We are only safe today thanks to Ukraine, the president of Moldova emphasized. According to Sandu, Russia's aggression against Ukraine is an attempt to remake the Soviet Union. We bring back the old days and we don't want this. Moldova has been part of the buffer zone for 30 years and for us this meant poverty, corruption, bad governance, emigration. We want to be part of the democratic world, she said.