Diana Sosoacă sent an official letter of protest to the Russian Embassy, expressing her indignation at Maria Zaharova’s statements.
Diana Șoșoacă, MEP and SOS leader, declared herself deeply indignant at the statements of the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zaharova, regarding the sovereignty of the Republic of Moldova. In his opinion, Russia has no right to intervene in the affairs of Moldova, and the only country that could have this right is Romania.
In this context, on Monday, January 19, Diana Șoșoacă sent an official letter to the Russian ambassador in Bucharest, firmly expressing her opposition to Moscow’s positions.
“Mr. Ambassador,
The undersigned, Diana Iovanovici-Soșoacă, Av. MEP and President of the SOS Romania Party, I send this official letter as a firm and categorical reaction to the public statements made on January 15, 2026 by the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mrs. Maria Zaharova, statements that represent a direct attack on the Romanian national identity and historical truth”. she began her message.
In the letter, Diana Sosoacă claims that Russia, through the voice of Maria Zaharova, unjustifiably disputes the right of Moldovans to assert their identity, language and political orientation.
“We consider unacceptable the way in which the representative of the Russian MFA allows herself to challenge the right of the people of the Republic of Moldova to freely assert their identity, language and political orientation. The only country that can challenge this right is Romania, because the Republic of Moldova does not exist from a legal point of view. Or it only exists on the basis of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty.
The Republic of Moldova belongs de jure to the Romanian stateso it is a problem of the ROMANIAN STATE, not of Moldova. And the Romanian state is the one that has to solve it. The fact that a part of the country is in another part does not change the status of “owner” of the “damaged” and “criminal” of the “robber”. And the statements according to which the Romanian language would be an “imposed name”, and the Moldovans would represent a people different from the Romanian one, constitute a gross manipulation and a defiance of historical realities”, the SOS leader unleashed.
At the same time, Diana Șoșoacă wanted to emphasize that the union of Moldova with Romania is a natural gesture, because the peoples separated by the Prut represent the same race, and it is by no means an “absorption” or “forced Romanianization”.
“Therefore, we send a clear and unwavering message: MOLDOVA IS ROMANIA, AND MOLDOVANS ARE ROMANIANS. No propaganda rhetoric from Moscow and anywhere else, no ideological reinterpretation of history and no diplomatic pressure will be able to change this truth.
The statement according to which Romania would “absorb” the Republic of Moldova, that it would carry out an alleged “forced Romanization” or that it would destroy the Moldovan identity is a false thesis, inherited from the Soviet era, when a politically fabricated identity was artificially imposed on the population between the Prut and Dniester. the MEP explained.
Quotes from Vladimir Putin
To strengthen her argument, Diana Şoşoacă even used the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the Republic of Moldova.
“We remind you, in this sense, even the statements of President Vladimir Putin, made in 2010, at the meeting with Russian historians. His Highness said that “Moldovans and Romanians belong to the same cultural and historical space” and that “the Moldovan language and the Romanian language are very close”. They are valid recognitions, of course only cultural-linguistic, not territorial, but they contradict Ms. Zaharova’s statements. And no, the Romanian and Moldovan languages are not close languages, they are the same language, with specific peculiarities, resulting from natural contamination with the languages of the peoples with which they came into contact”, she also wrote.
Maia Sandu – “an impostor”, in the opinion of the SOS leader
According to the letter addressed to the ambassador of the Russian Federation in Bucharest, the only point of view in which the opinions of Diana Şoşoacă and Maria Zaharova converge is the one regarding Maia Sandu, whom the SOS leader qualifies as an “impostor”, who acts on orders.
“Mrs. Maria Zaharova is right when she says that “Maia Sandu’s policy, since 2020, when she became the president of the Republic of Moldova, has been directed exactly in this direction – depriving this country, Moldova, of sovereignty and independence, eroding the historical memory of the Moldovan people, carrying out all the steps so that Moldovans do not know their own history and renounce their own identity”. But this is where the justice of the reign stops. his and in a completely different sense than the one in which he argues. Thus, “giving up the name of the language as Moldovan and reshaping it in Romanian” is an incorrect attribution to an impostor who never wanted the union with the motherland (she did it now, by order) and a gross and irresponsible insult to the Moldovans!”, she notes.
“Romania wants peace, dialogue and cooperation, but it will never accept to be denied its history, identity and national rights. Respect must be mutual. Otherwise, such statements only prove that the problem is not in Romania, nor in the Republic of Moldova, but in the inability of some representatives of the Russian Federation to understand that the era of empires and dictates over the peoples has passed”. Diana Sosoacă’s protest ends.
