The Moldovan authorities announced on Monday that they were summoning Moscow’s envoy after accusations about the situation in the pro-Russian separatist region of Transdniestria, which fears finding itself completely without electricity after the end of Russian gas supplies.
This territory of nearly half a million inhabitants, which has escaped the control of the Moldovan authorities since the fall of the USSR, has already shut down many industrial companies last week and introduced nighttime power cuts. electricity for the population.
The Russian giant Gazprom announced in December the cessation of deliveries to Moldova even before kyiv formalized the end of the transit contract, in the context of a financial dispute with this former Soviet republic with European aspirations. Until now, it supplied Transdniestria with gas via the local supplier Tiraspoltransgaz, without this company paying for these deliveries. The region sent the invoices to Chisinau, gradually increasing Moldova’s debt to Gazprom. But if Moscow estimates it at more than 700 million dollars, Chisinau estimates it at only 9 million.
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