[4] The Victory bloc was officially founded by Ilan Shor on 21 April 2024 in Moscow, Russia, at a meeting at the Carlton Hotel.
In addition to Shor, the agreement to create the bloc was signed by the Governor of Gagauzia Evghenia Guțul, as well as the leaders of the Revival, Chance, FASM and Victorie parties.
According to the organizers and participants, this event was held in Russia because the opposition is persecuted in Moldova and arrests and searches are used against its activists and leaders.
Ilan Shor said he is confident that the Victory bloc will be able to defeat Moldovan President Maia Sandu in the presidential election and will "use any necessary methods" to achieve this goal and free Moldova from the "pro-European bandits".
A few days before the bloc's congress, its leaders took part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which took place from 5 to 8 June 2024, and discussed the political situation in Moldova with Russian politicians such as Sergey Lavrov, Nikolai Valuev, Yevgeny Primakov Jr., Rustam Minnikhanov, Alexander Beglov and propagandists like Margarita Simonyan.
[5][8] Igor Munteanu, the leader of the pro-European extra-parliamentary opposition Coalition for Unity and Welfare (CUB), said that the emergence of a new bloc in Moscow means that plans to destabilize Moldova are entering the implementation phase.