The Kremlin has agreed to resume gas supplies to Moldova’s Russian-controlled Transnistria region. They are ready to “provide assistance,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
He did not want to say what this help would look like. On January 1, Russian gas deliveries were halted due to a financial dispute between Russia and the Moldovan government. On the same day, Ukrainian authorities stopped transporting Russian gas to Eastern European countries through their pipeline network. A treaty between Kiev and Moscow had expired.
Transnistria is a pro-Russian controlled region in Moldova. After the end of the Soviet Union, the region declared its independence. Their government should take measures “to secure gas supplies,” Peskov said. So far she has not shown any willingness. The Moldovan government had previously announced that Russian authorities could also supply Transnistria with gas via an alternative route. This runs via Turkey and the Balkans.
Here you can see a message about the Russian ‘aid offer’.
No heating and no hot water
The Kremlin accuses the governments of Ukraine and Moldova of causing an energy crisis in Transnistria. About 400,000 residents in the region have been living in temperatures around freezing point for more than two weeks without heating or hot water.
The rest of Moldova now receives its electricity supply from neighboring Romania. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Wednesday that Russia appears to want to resume gas deliveries only in smaller quantities. As a result, the power plant cannot supply electricity outside Transnistria. “Chisinau will not accept this game and these tricks,” Recean said.
Source: Krone
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