The National Army of Moldova will receive armored personnel carriers, which will be unveiled in a public ceremony on Thursday in Chisinau, DW reported.
Germany’s action is the outcome of Christine Lambrecht, the Federal Minister of Defense, visiting Chisinau at the start of October 2022. At that time, Germany pledged to provide drones and other cutting-edge technology to the National Army of Moldova.
The authorities in Chisinau are discussing the need for a sophisticated defense system more and more frequently in light of the security dangers brought on by the conflict that Russia has started against Ukraine. A component of this approach is Germany’s offer of the Piranha armored personnel carriers.
According to surveys, more than 70% of the Republic of Moldova (a militarily neutral state) residents think that the National Army’s capacities need to be updated.
The leadership in Chisinau said that the Moldovans would organize to defend their homeland if the Russians were to succeed in moving closer to the Dniester River, but they also acknowledged that the army’s supplies were inadequate and requested assistance from outside. As a shield in front of Moldova, the Ukrainian army puts up a fight. In other instances, though, Russian missiles went into Moldovan airspace without permission and impacted targets in Ukraine.
According to Viorel Cibotaru, the Republic of Moldova’s current ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and a former minister of defense, the country’s military capacities have been steadily declining since 1993. He claims that the degrading process came to an end in the middle of 2014, during the unrest in Ukraine, when all of the USSR-era military equipment was fully repaired.
Moldova began steadily modernizing its army as early as 2015 under the constraints of a tiny budget of less than 0.3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), and for 2023 it set a 68% larger defense budget.
