The Russia-backed Transnistria region is facing a severe energy crisis, with residents enduring power and heating outages. Moldova's Prime Minister accuses Russia of orchestrating the crisis to destabilize the country and influence upcoming elections.
Residents of Moldova ’s enclave of Transnistria are enduring an energy crisis that has shut down factories, left Soviet-era apartment blocks without heating and raised questions about its survival. The hydroelectric power plant in Dubasari, for which Russia has provided virtually free gas, in Transnistria , on Jan. 4, 2024.
The Prime Minister of Moldova has accused the Kremlin of manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in the breakaway region of Transnistria as part of an effort to further destabilize the strategically vital country. Many of the 400,000 residents of the Moscow-backed region of Transnistria – which sits on the western border of Ukraine – have been without heating and electricity since Jan. 1, and the expiry of an agreement that saw Ukraine transport Russian natural gas to much of Eastern Europe via its network of pipelines. The end of the five-year gas transit deal – which Kyiv honoured despite the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that Russia launched in February, 2022 – was long expected. Moscow could continue to supply the region with gas via other pipelines that run under the Black Sea and via Turkey, but is refusing to do so until the Moldovan government pays a US$709-million debt that the Kremlin says the tiny nation owes to Russia’s state-run Gazprom energy giant. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Monday that his government owed nothing to either Gazprom or the Kremlin, with Moldova having largely weaned itself off Russian gas following the invasion of Ukraine. He said the growing suffering of Transnistria residents was part of a Kremlin plot to turn Moldovans against their government ahead of parliamentary elections due to be held later this year. “There is no point talking to Gazprom, because this is the deliberate decision of the Kremlin – to induce this humanitarian crisis,” Mr. Recean said in a Zoom call with international reporter
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