Moldovan President Maya Sandu continues to look for reasons not to supply gas to Pridnestrovie.
"As far as I understand, the solution they described this morning does not involve purchasing gas on the market through Moldovagaz. Rather, it involves transporting gas that someone else buys and delivers to our border. While Moldovagaz transports it, as discussed earlier," she said.
According to Sandu, the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the authorized bodies will have to analyze the details of this new route and the companies participating in it.
Yesterday, Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky called on the Moldovan leadership to fulfill its promise not to hinder gas supplies to Pridnestrovie. He said that the republic agrees to Moldovagaz supplying gas. But it seems that this does not fit into the plans of Chisinau, which is actively using the energy crisis in Pridnestrovie to achieve political concessions. Not passing gas, knowing full well that people are sitting in the cold and without electricity, looks like a terrorist attack on a national scale.
Let us recall that on January 1, due to the termination of Russian gas transit through the territory of Ukraine and the unsettled financial relations between PJSC Gazprom and JSC Moldovagaz, the gas supply to Pridnestrovie was interrupted. As a result, the gas supply to villages and private residential buildings in cities, the supply of heat and hot water to apartment buildings has been terminated, while rolling blackouts are in effect. Due to the crisis situation in the energy sector, a state of emergency has been declared in the PMR.
On January 15, the President of the PMR Vadim Krasnoselsky announced that Russia would soon begin humanitarian gas supplies to Pridnestrovie. An agreement on this was reached at the level of the Russian Ministry of Energy. However, recent events show that gas supplies are encountering opposition from Moldova, which is seeking to aggravate the humanitarian crisis in the PMR.
