Russian embassy representative summoned to Moldovan Foreign Ministry

A representative of the Russian embassy in Moldova has been summoned to the country's Foreign Ministry after making statements about the situation with the energy crisis in the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR). This was reported in the ministry on January 6.

The ministry said that it considers false the information published earlier in the day by the Russian diplomatic mission that Chisinau ignores its problems in its relations with the Gazprom company and that Moldova and Ukraine are to blame for the energy crisis in the DMR. In addition, the embassy described Kiev's stoppage of Russian gas transit during the winter as cynical.

"In this regard, the Foreign Ministry ordered to summon a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation", the ministry said in a statement on its Telegram channel.

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Earlier in the day, DMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky named Chisinau's refusal to pay debts to Gazprom as the cause of the energy crisis in the unrecognized republic . The Transnistrian head said that Moldova had not provided any assistance to the DMR in the current situation.

Before that, on January 3, Krasnoselsky said that 1,500 multi-storey and 72,000 private houses in Transnistria were left without gas and heating. The DMR head added that two large social facilities had to be transferred to heating with diesel fuel.

On the same day, the deputy head of the administration for social issues in the Transnistrian town of Ribnitsa, Yuri Moldovsky, told Izvestia that all enterprises continue to operate normally despite the gas supply interruption. The head of the temporary accommodation center, Tatiana Lukasishina, said that there are 150 beds in the dormitory building for those who need first aid, food and accommodation.

Centralized heating in the DMR was cut off on January 1 after Russian gas supplies to Moldova stopped. The supply of heat for heating and hot water supply to residents stopped from 07:00 (08:00 Moscow time) that day.

"Gazprom and Moldovagaz signed a five-year contract for gas supplies in the fall of 2021. It stipulated Chisinau's payment of the debt for supplies in the past few years. The entire volume was estimated at $709 million, of which Chisinau officially recognizes only $8.6 million.