The European Union is aware of the critical situation of gas supplies to self-proclaimed Transnistria following Ukraine’s decision to cut off Russian gas supplies to Europe, the EU spokesperson said on Monday. the European Commission Anna-Kaisa Itkonen.
“Regarding the energy situation in Moldova, we are aware of the very serious situation in the separatist territory of Transnistria and we continue to have regular exchanges with the Moldovan authorities to mitigate the consequences of the end of Russian gas deliveries to the country. country,” Ms Itkonen said at the mid-day EC briefing. The spokesperson added that the Commission will hold a meeting with the Moldovan authorities later this week to discuss this issue.
Moldova declared a state of energy emergency on December 16. On January 1, Russian gas transit through Ukraine was halted, with the expiration of the 2019 contract between Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz. The Russian company said it had neither the legal nor the technical capacity to continue pumping gas into the pipeline that supplies Moldova and four EU countries, namely Slovakia, Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic.
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