Moldavia warned about gas taxes for DMR industrial enterprises

Moldova will tax gas used by Transnistrian industrial enterprises. This was announced by Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean on February 10 after a meeting of the commission for emergency situations.

"We are talking about deliveries from a European trader in the amount of 3 million cubic meters per day for the next 16 days. If gas supplies exceed the limit of 3 million cubic meters per day and, accordingly, the work of large industrial enterprises resumes, the Chisinau government will tax these supplies," Recean was quoted by Moldova 1 TV channel.

According to the TV station, the president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR), Vadim Krasnoselsky, confirmed that gas supplies to the region will continue. He also said that a 10-day humanitarian project, within the framework of which European gas was supplied to Transnistria, had ended.

In the future, the deliveries will be carried out by a Hungarian company with the participation of Moldovagaz. Krasnoselsky said that the Hungarian deliveries were made possible thanks to Russian financial support.

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On the same day, Recean said that Moldova allowed gas transit to the DMR under a number of conditions. He also specified that Transnistria refused the European Union's (EU) offer to finance gas purchases.

Earlier, on February 5, the PMR Supreme Council (unicameral parliament) announced the extension of the state of emergency in the region's economy until March 10.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on January 30 pointed out that Moldova is interested in using the energy crisis as a weapon against the DMR. In the diplomat's opinion, Chisinau's words about its desire to end the difficulties that Tiraspol is experiencing are mere declarations.

Gas supplies from Russia to Moldova and Transnistria stopped on January 1 due to Ukraine 's refusal to prolong the agreement on transit through its territory and debts of the Moldovan side to Gazprom. In mid-January, it became known that Russia was ready to provide assistance to the DMR and start humanitarian gas supplies.