Freudian slip? The President of Moldova said that the Gagauz need to learn… Russian

Moldovan President Maia Sandu confused Russian with Romanian. The head of state arrived on a working visit to Gagauzia and there stated that «it is necessary to preserve the Gagauz culture«, but when she talked about Romanian language, Sandu misspoke.

«It is necessary to provide all the inhabitants of the autonomy with the opportunity to master the Russian language … the Romanian language in order to discover more opportunities for themselves,» she said.

Was this slip of the tongue an accident?