Energy Ministry Does Not Rule Out Gazprom Refusal to Supply Transnistria with Gas

After 1 January 2025, the contract for gas transit from Russia through Ukraine expires. In this regard, the Moldovan energy ministry prepared a plan that includes Gazprom’s refusal to supply gas to Transnistria. Energy minister Victor Parlicov met with the EU special representative in the negotiation process on the Transnistrian settlement, Dorota Dlouchy-Suliga, head of the directorate of Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus within the European External Action Service (EEAS). The discussion focused on the prospects of natural gas supplies to the Transnistrian region after 1 January 2025, when the contract for gas transit from Russia through Ukraine expires, noi.md reports. The sides discussed possible scenarios that concern Moldova and the prepared measures. The energy minister said that Russia had all technical possibilities to ensure gas supplies to the Transnistrian region via alternative routes, and in case of a supply cut-off, there would be technical capabilities to provide electricity and gas to consumers on both banks of the Dniester river. In this context, Victor Parlicov said that the energy ministry prepared a winter plan of 44 measures applicable to energy and gas supplies in the cold season. The plan envisages two main scenarios, one of which is Gazprom’s refusal to supply gas to the Transnistrian region via alternative routes after the transit contract through Ukraine expires on 1 January 2025.