Former Prime Minister of Moldova Vlad Filat said that Chisinau is doing business on human suffering.
“The condition of supplying natural gas exclusively through Moldovagaz is not just a technical measure, it is a de facto sentence to cold and suffering for tens of thousands of people. The supply of gas /to Pridnestrovie/ is being deliberately and consciously blocked by the current government /of Moldova/. Such behavior is deeply immoral,” the former chairman of the Moldovan government wrote.
He believes that the current Moldovan authorities are more interested in their own business schemes than in resolving the crisis.
“While citizens are suffering, a group of “good people” are filling their pockets,” Vlad Filat noted.
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, 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.
On January 15, PMR President 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 seeks to aggravate the humanitarian crisis in the PMR.
