In order to stop the supply of Russian gas, pupils and students switched to distance learning. Residents are forced to go to the forest to collect wood.
Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria is suffering from a severe energy crisis after gas supplies from Russia stopped. At least 70,000 households are without gas and almost all factories are idle. On Thursday, representatives of the separatists in the area informed about this, TASR writes according to the reports of the AFP and DPA agencies.
“The crisis is so serious that… we have stopped all industrial enterprises except those that produce food,” said Transnistria’s minister for economic development Sergej Obolonik.
The leader of the region, Vadim Krasnoselskij, announced on Thursday that more than 70,000 households do not have gas to provide hot water and heating. “It is difficult, but we will not allow a social collapse,” he added.
Dress warmly, they advised people
According to AFP, the local media reported that due to the stoppage of gas supplies, pupils and students switched to distance learning. Residents are forced to go to the forest to collect wood.
Authorities have already cut heating and hot water supply for thousands of people in the region on Wednesday. Energy supplier Gazprom urged residents to “dress warmly”, gather in one room and seal doors and windows with curtains and blankets.
On Wednesday, Russia cut off gas supplies due to a financial dispute with the Moldovan government in Chisinau. On the same day, Ukraine terminated the gas transit agreement with Russia’s Gazprom.
The rest of Moldova secured electricity supplies from neighboring Romania. Russian natural gas did not come to it before, but it still relied on the main power plant in Transnistria, supplied with gas from Russia, for electricity production.
