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He also attacked the UN for the aid it gave to asylum seekers hoping to enter the US, saying "The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them."

Meanwhile he said it was "embarrassing" that some European nations were buying oil and gas from Russia even as they oppose its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In 2022, when Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Moldova's neighbour Ukraine, she made a decisive turn towards Europe as the only guarantor of her own country's security and its sovereignty.

Tensions have been escalating recently after Russian drones and aircraft ventured into central and eastern European airspace, three and a half years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Crawford was booked into East County Jail and charged with eight counts of invasion of privacy.