Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, has designated Dorin Recean, presidential security adviser, to form a new Cabinet after Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița resigned on Friday. Maia Sandu said the top priorities include defense and security, energy supplies over the cold season as well as the fight against corruption. Recean currently serves as secretary of the Supreme Security Council of the Republic of Moldova. He served as Interior Minister over 2012-2016. Outgoing Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița was sworn in a year and a half ago and had to cope with multiple crises generated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, including energy security, rampant inflation, losing access to eastern markets and the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Prime Minister Gavrilița said that Moldova obtaining EU candidate status is the greatest achievement of her Cabinet. Also on Friday, the Russian ambassador to Chișinău, Oleg Vasnetsov, was summoned at the Moldovan Foreign Ministry after a Russian missile targeted against Ukraine transited Moldovan air space.
