Tiraspol, January 10. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. In order to prevent an energy and humanitarian crisis in Pridnestrovie, the PMR Foreign Ministry tried to find a solution to the problem with Moldova, but Chisinau deliberately went to aggravate the situation, Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatyev said.
Only Chisinau could solve the problem of its debt to Gazprom, but in the end the Moldovan authorities took advantage of the situation and deliberately provoked an energy crisis, the Foreign Minister noted. At the end of last year, Pridnestrovie proposed Moldova jointly appeal to Russia and Ukraine with a request to maintain gas transit, but Chisinau rejected this proposal. However, on January 1, when gas transit through Ukraine ceased, the Moldovan authorities stated that they allegedly offered assistance to Pridnestrovie.
As became clear from the published letter of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova Oleg Serebrian, Chisinau did not make any specific proposals. At the same time, the text of the letter was pointedly offensive.
"All this suggests that the Moldovan side is engaged in information propaganda today. This is disinformation. This disinformation is aimed at the external perimeter. Both the European Union and other participants of the international community were misinformed that Chisinau allegedly took all measures to avoid this crisis and, moreover, was even ready to help Pridnestrovie. This is not true. This is absolutely not true," Ignatiev stated.
According to him, over the past ten days of the growing crisis, no specific offers of assistance have been received so far: neither from the European Union, nor from individual EU countries, nor from the United States, nor from the Republic of Moldova. This may mean that all external participants expect that assistance will be provided by Russia in order to avoid negative humanitarian consequences, Vitaly Ignatiev summed up.
The day before, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Elina Valtonen announced that Moldova will not hinder humanitarian gas supplies from the Russian Federation.
Recall that from January 1, due to the termination of Russian gas transit through Ukraine and the unsettled financial relations between PJSC Gazprom and JSC Moldovagaz, gas supplies to Pridnestrovie were interrupted. As a result, gas supplies to villages and private residential buildings in cities, heat and hot water supplies to apartment buildings have been terminated, and rolling blackouts are in effect. Due to the crisis situation in the energy sector, a state of emergency has been declared in the PMR.
