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The energy crisis took place in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] The initial 30% drop in gas supply from Russia led Transnistria to reduce the electricity supply to Moldova by 73%, Moldova also lost their supply of electricity from Ukraine due to Russian attacks on power systems.
According to Serebrian, the energy crisis caused by the end of Russian gas exports to Transnistria could cause a "much more complicated" situation than that caused by the 2022–2023 Moldovan energy crisis. As he stated, Transnistria's population could face a humanitarian crisis, as it could be left without gas, coal, and electricity. [104]
"We're treating this not as an energy crisis but a security crisis, induced by Russia to destabilise Moldova both economically and socially," Olga Rosca, foreign policy adviser to Moldova's ...
Moldova's government blames Russia for the crisis and has called on Gazprom to ship gas through the Turkstream pipeline and then through Bulgaria and Romania.
The crisis in Transnistria – which could prompt thousands of residents to flee across the border – provides Russia with an opportunity to sow more chaos in Moldova, Popescu warned.
It supplies gas from Romania to Moldova through a reverse flow of the Trans-Balkan pipeline. [4] In 2024, then Minister of Energy of Moldova, Victor Parlicov, stated that the pipeline was a real lifesaver for Moldova's energy security during the energy crisis in 2022, when Russia's Gazprom unilaterally reduced the volume of gas delivered to ...
Russian energy giant Gazprom supplies the gas-operated Kuciurgan plant, which generates electricity that powers a significant portion of Moldova proper. The plant was privatized in 2004 by Transnistrian officials and later sold to a Russian state-owned company. Moldova doesn’t recognize the privatization.
The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged ... Prime Minister Dorin Recean said Monday that cold water supply in Transnistria had also been disrupted amid the energy crisis.