
(ANSA-AFP) - UNITED NATIONS, SEP 24 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Wednesday that Europe could not afford to lose strategically located Moldova to Russian influence, following Belarus and Georgia into Moscow's orbit. "Russia's trying to do to Moldova what Iran once did to Lebanon and the global response again, not enough. We have already lost Georgia in Europe... and for many, many years, Belarus has also been moving toward dependence on Russia. Europe cannot afford to lose Moldova too," he said at the UN General Assembly. (ANSA-AFP).