Around 4 a.m. on 24 February 2022, Maia Sandu was awoken by rumbling explosions heralding the Russian mobilization on Ukraine which she corroborated by reading the news, perhaps on her phone, before beginning to place calls. I am watching an interviewer ask her to recount the last time she cried, and she responded to this as a normal question.
Though President Sandu cooks her own breakfast, her mother prepares the lunch and sometimes also buys ingredients for dinner. However, she acquired Romanian citizenship 15 years ago, before becoming president of Moldova.