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Separatist leaders said they will take a Russian loan to pay for supplies despite an EU aid offer.
A European Commission spokesperson today said that the EU’s offer “is still on the table” but that Transnistrian authorities “have gone for another solution.”
EU cash has ensured that gas and power flow in Moldova and its breakaway region of Transnistria, after Russia closed the taps โ now Brussels wants a longer-term deal.
As he urged Europe and the US to take part in any discussions around ending the war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated at a press conference on Saturday that any talks held without Kyiv would not guarantee lasting peace. He…
Comments came after angry complaints from Slovakia and Hungary over Kyiv’s refusal to renew transit of Russian gas.
Since January 1, Moldova has been grappling with an energy and political crisis whose outcome remains uncertain. In the middle of winter, Gazprom stopped supplying gas to Transnistria, a self-proclaimed independent Moldovan region run by pro-Moscow se…
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Any deal must not become a back door for Russian influence, says Moldovan official.
Russia to supply ‘humanitarian aid’ gas to Transnistria, Tiraspol says
One option is Russia to start shipments through the Balkan corridor (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania), without Moldova paying off the arrears, an analyst explained.
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A humanitarian catastrophe is looming for the 367,000 inhabitants of Transnistria, a region of Moldova living under pro-Russian separatist control. Counting on rising discontent in both Transnistria and Moldova ahead of the parliamentary elections, the…
“We are ready to assist Moldova, including with coal supplies,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address after discussing the crisis with Sandu by telephone.
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A brief explainer of everything you need to know about the region, its worsening crisis and why it all matters to the rest of Europe.
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Moldova accuses Russia of provoking crisis in Transnistria
The gas supply dispute between the Moldovan government and its breakaway region of Transnistria is reigniting political tensions.
People of Transnistria forced to chop wood to heat homes after gas transit deal via Ukraine expires
Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean called the halt of deliveries โKremlin gas blackmailโ.
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Residential area in Chernigiv, north of Kyiv, among those hit as Zelenskyy says Russia launched 300 attack drones and nearly 20 missiles in first three days of 2025. What we know on day 1,045See all our Ukraine war coverageAt least five people were kil…
Leaked correspondence shows Transnistria was offered alternatives to Russian gas amid a winter energy catastrophe.
Transnistria has for several years paid nothing for supplies from Russian gas giant Gazprom under a tacit understanding with Moscow.
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Breakaway territory of 450,000 people suffers painful and immediate hit as Ukraine ends transit agreementThe shutdown of Russian gas supplies to Moldovaโs breakaway Transnistria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food prod…
Top Putin ally has threatened to retaliate against Kyiv.
The Moscow-backed breakaway region is unable to heat homes after being cut off by Kremlin patrons.
Supply to Transnistria halted as transit deal between Russia and Ukraine expiresThe breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria has cut heating and hot water supplies to households after Russia stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.โThere is no heating or ho…
Although Europe has fought to wean itself off dependence on Russian gas since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, several eastern European states still look to Moscow for much of their energy needs.
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Moscow has confirmed its air defences were repelling Ukrainian drones at the time of planeโs flight but has not admitted it shot it down. What we know on day 1,040Ukraineโs president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has called on Russia to provide a clearer expla…
“We can be proud that, despite the challenges, we have managed to be on the right side of history,” Maia Sandu said while taking the oath before parliament and the Constitutional Court.
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The statement was made as the parliament of the separatist enclave of Transnistria appealed to Moscow for help resolving disruptions in natural gas supply.
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Slovakia, receiving gas from Russia via pipelines in Ukraine, has been in talks to try to avoid Russian gas flows stopping when a transit contract between Kyiv and Moscow expires at the end of the year.
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The companies’ plea to the EU comes as the region faces a gas supply cutoff from Moscow via Ukraine later this month.
Britain and the EU would likely follow Washington in introducing sanctions against NIS, Serbian president says in TV interview.
Prime Minister Dorin Recean said Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to leave the population of Transnistria without gas” in order to destabilise the situation in Moldova.”
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Security services warned of efforts to disrupt and distort voting at overseas polling stations.
Authorities tell POLITICO they are working to fight Russian interference after first-round vote was marred by allegations of bribery and intimidation.
In countries seeking to join the EU, the European Dream is running into the Russian fist.
Sundayโs results will show whether the country’s efforts to avoid their own ‘Brexit moment’ will succeed.
Moscow is using cash and fear in an attempt to regain control of the former Soviet Republic, officials warn.
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Lawmakers in Moldova’s separatist region of Tiraspol passed a law on Wednesday banning the use of the term ‘Transnistria’, equating it with terms such as ‘fascism’ and ‘Nazism’, with the region’s de facto leader, Vadim Krasnoselski, saying he prefers t…
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A week after the European Union launched membership talks with Moldova, the country’s separatist region of Transnistria complained on Tuesday (2 July) that central authorities had ignored its proposals to settle their long-running dispute and imposed a…
Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States accuse Russia of “seeking to undermine Moldovan democratic institutions.”
The United States imposed sanctions on the pro-Russia governor of Moldova’s Gagauzia region on Wednesday (12 June), a move supported by the pro-Western government in Chisinau.
The move comes amid warnings Moscow is seeking to destabilize the EU candidate country.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday (29 May) promised steadfast US support to Moldova in areas from energy independence to democracy promotion on a solidarity visit to the pro-Western nation as alarm grows over Russian pressure.
With an EU referendum and a presidential election in October, the Ukraine-bordering Eastern European country fends off a barrage of disinformation, cyberattacks and Kremlin-backed political corruption.
For the first time, Moldova can cut an energy link to its breakaway territory. Yet doing so risks Moscow’s threats and a possible humanitarian crisis.
The current chair of Europe’s biggest security body pledged on Friday (12 April) to boost efforts to breathe new life into the process of resolving a three-decade-old dispute between Moldova and the ex-Soviet state’s pro-Russian separatist Transnistria…
Ukrainian leader issues starkest warning yet of air defence weapons running out; Russian attack kills eight in eastern city. What we know on day 774Ukraine could run out of air defence missiles if Russia keeps up its intense long-range bombing campaign…
Members of a pro-Russian oligarchโs party can now run for president later this year.
Moldova’s Parliament on Thursday (21 March) endorsed an appeal to press on with a drive to join the European Union, but the opposition walked out of the vote and separatists in the Transnistria region urged authorities to drop their claim to the enclave.
Moldova on Tuesday (19 March) expelled a Russian diplomat over the opening of polling stations for Russia’s presidential election in the breakaway region of Transnistria after summoning the Russian ambassador.
President Maia Sandu launched a campaign to promote an upcoming referendum on Moldova’s push to join the European Union on Monday (18 March), calling on civil leaders to rally support for the country’s accession to the 27-member bloc.
A senior official in ex-Soviet Moldova said on Wednesday (13 March) Moscow was breaking laws by printing ballot papers in the separatist region of Transnistria ahead of this weekend’s Russian presidential election.
Not Transnistria; another one.
Moldova’s spy chief said on Tuesday (5 March) that Russia was planning fresh attempts to meddle in the country’s internal affairs by provoking protests, interfering in upcoming presidential elections, and disrupting plans to join the European Union.
Russian president makes quasi-campaign speech, two weeks before an election he is certain to win.
Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region asked Russia on Wednesday (28 February) to help its economy withstand Moldovan “pressure”, at a meeting of hundreds of officials dismissed by the pro-European Chisinau government as a propaganda stunt to gain hea…
Pro-Russian rebel officials in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria on Wednesday appealed to Russia for “protection”, amid fears the territory could become a new flashpoint in Moscow’s conflict with neighbouring Ukraine.
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Kremlin-allied breakaway region claimed that Chiศinฤu is ramping up “pressure” โ and now it needs Moscow’s help.
A senior official of Moldova’s pro-European government said on Wednesday (17 January) that his latest talks with the pro-Russian separatist Transnistria region had been “quite difficult” as tension rises in the three-decade-old standoff.
Europe must show it can defend itself, according to Michel Hofman.
Russia on Tuesday (7 November) formally withdrew from a landmark security treaty which limited key categories of conventional armed forces, blaming the United States for undermining post-Cold War security with the enlargement of the NATO military allia…
Emmanuel Macron’s European Political Community, launched after Russia invaded Ukraine, is now translating into defense deals.
Moldova’s parliament began moves on Wednesday (4 October) to prevent members of the banned pro-Russian Shor (ศor)ย party running in local elections for other parties or as independent candidates.
Moldova will uphold its gas supply contract with Russia’s Gazprom in order to ward off crises over power prices in the country and hardship in its breakaway Transnistria region, Energy Minister Victor Parlicov said on Thursday (21 September).
