Moldovan Defense Minister Anatolie Nosatîi interrupted a journalist who began speaking Russian, saying: “I don't understand you.”
He answered after she repeated the question in Romanian and praised her for using the state language.
His CV states that he speaks Russian and studied in Ukraine for four years.
I always felt like this part of the film was the best I’ve ever seen war done in cinema. It begins with music, marching and a formal preparation for battle. So glorious, but then those men getting shot don’t just fall over dead like every other movie and they roll around drying. Ending with a bleeding gut wound, a man dying in a muddy wet cold ditch 1,000 miles from home. No honor or formality left, merely the reality of war