Novak announces plans for further Russian support of gas supply to the DMR

Russia plans to continue supporting the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR) in supplying it with gas. This was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak at a meeting of the board of the Economic Development Ministry on 17 February.

According to him, the unrecognized state now receives about 3 million cubic meters of gas fuel per day from European suppliers.

"Russia has provided support for such volumes of gas to come from the European market [to Transnistria]," he added.

At the same time, as the deputy prime minister emphasized, Chisinau, which considers the territory of the unrecognized state as its own, has done nothing to combat the energy crisis in Transnistria.

Earlier, on February 14, DMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky said that natural gas, purchased thanks to Russia's credit assistance and the support of the Russian Ministry of Energy, had started to arrive in the republic.

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Gas supplies from Russia to Moldova and Transnistria stopped on January 1 due to Ukraine 's refusal to extend the agreement on transit through its territory and debts of the Moldovan side to Gazprom. On 4 February, former Moldovan president and leader of the Party of Socialists (PSRM) Igor Dodon said that the energy crisis in the unrecognized republic was created by Kiev and Chisinau, which seek to provoke a humanitarian disaster on the left bank of the Dniester.