FILE - A woman leaves at the end of a religious service inside the Saint John the Baptist cathedral in Comrat, the capital of Gagauzia, an autonomous part of Moldova, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

FILE - Men stand next to pipelines of the national natural gas distribution network outside Ungheni, Moldova, March 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja, File)

FILE - Men collect water from a fountain in the village of Hrusevo, Moldova, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

FILE - A man sleeps on a bench in a park in Chisinau, Moldova, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

FILE - A woman walks by a depiction of the European Union flag near a park in central Chisinau, Moldova, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

FILE - A worker sits on his water tank truck next to the business tower Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

FILE - A woman looks at a mobile ballot box in the village of Ciopleni, Moldova, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

FILE - A girl skates next to a statue of Lenin, with the words "Board of Honor" written in Cyrillic in Romanian and Russian in Chisinau, Moldova, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)