CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned on Wednesday that Russia is spending hundreds of millions of euros to “take power” in a pivotal parliamentary election that could derail the country’s course toward the European Union.

Recean’s remarks came days before the election on Sunday, when Moldovans will vote to choose a new 101-seat legislature in a ballot many view as a stark choice between East and West.

“The Republic of Moldova is in an electoral campaign. The Russian Federation is also in an electoral campaign,” he said in an address after a government session. “It’s just that we are campaigning in our country, and the Russian Federation wants to campaign not in its own country, but in our country.”

Recean accused the Kremlin of trying “to take power in C

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