CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova could see its ambitions to join the European Union halted if it fails to return a pro-European parliament, senior Moldovan officials said on Thursday, as an opinion poll put the pro-Russian opposition in the lead in a general election campaign.

The president of parliament and the prime minister, senior members of President Maia Sandu’s PAS party, said her drive to join the EU lay in the hands of voters in Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest states lying between Ukraine and Romania.

Sandu is a vocal critic of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has buffeted Moldova, with Russian drones landing repeatedly on its territory. Brought to power on a promise to eliminate corruption, she was reelected last year and voters narrowly approved her drive for EU membership in a

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