When meeting with Putin, Guțul discussed “complex regional and geopolitical issues, in the epicenter of which the region is located.”[12] In addition, Guțul said she was ready to open a representative office of Gagauzia in Moscow, to which she was reminded in Chișinău that Gagauzia is not a separate subject of international law and is part of Moldova.

[18] The event was not attended by Irina Vlah, who had completed her mandate as bashkan, and therefore the symbolic procedure of transfer of power did not take place.

[19][20] Guțul named Sergei Ibrishim as the head of the Main Directorate of the Agro-Industrial Complex of Gagauzia, the governmental branch in charge of agriculture and industry.

A noted Russophile, Ibrishim personally wrote a letter to the Kremlin urging Russian intervention to allow Gagauzian goods to be sold in Russia at the same rate as that prior to Moldova's withdrawal from the CIS in December 2023.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has deemed this a form of "energy blackmail" against Moldova, as the lower tariffs would make it nearly impossible for the Moldovan government to reduce dependence on Gagauzia's four Gazprom natural gas power plants.

[11] On 13 March 2024, Guțul announced that she was organizing a meeting with prominent pro-Russian politicians of Moldova, such as Igor Dodon, Vladimir Voronin, Ilan Shor, and the leadership of the Revival Party.

This quadrumvir of Dodon, Guțul, Shor, and Voronin, are possibly organizing into one singular opposition movement against the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity to contest the 2024 presidential and the 2025 parliamentary elections.

[26] On 14 October of 2024, the EU Council imposed personal sanctions on Guțul citing her continued and persistent attempts to upend Moldova's constitutional order by promoting separatism in Gagauzia and receiving illegal financial support from and maintaining ties to fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor and Russia, thus constituting a threat to Moldova's security, stability and democracy.

According to the investigation, in 2019 - 2022, Guțul, while working as a secretary in the “Shor” party, systematically imported into Moldova money received from an organized criminal group from Russia.

There is another accusation, according to which Guțul, as an accomplice, in the period from October to November 2022, coordinated the activity of some territorial branches of the former party “Shor” in the districts of the Republic of Moldova.

She was responsible for verifying, approving lists and remunerating protesters in front of state institutions in Chișinău - Parliament, Government, Presidency, Prosecutor General's Office, etc.

[28][29] On April 24, 2024, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Moldova announced that it had completed the investigation and submitted the case against Guțul to the court.

The hearing of the case has already been postponed several times, the accused was unable to attend the court session due to health reasons.