Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria has halted heating and hot water supply to households on the first day of 2025 after the flow of Russian gas via Ukraine stopped, a local energy company has said.

On Wednesday, Russian energy giant Gazprom announced that it could not deliver gas to Europe via the Ukrainian route anymore due to Kiev's “repeated and clear refusal” to prolong the relevant agreements that expired at the end of 2024.

Later in the day, Transnistria’s energy company, Tirasteploenergo, said that that because of “the temporary cessation of gas deliveries to the heat-generating facilities of the enterprise... heating and hot water supply to the population, publicly funded institutions and organizations of all forms of ownership will be cut.” 

For now, only medical facilities that provide inpatient care will be heated, the company added.

“There is no heating or hot water,” an unnamed employee of Tirasteploenergo in the republic’s capital of Tiraspol told Reuters by phone. The woman said she did not know how long the situation would continue.

In mid-December, Transnistria introduced a state of economic emergency due to the looming gas crisis. Shortly thereafter, Moldova announced a state of emergency in the energy sector.

Transnistria, which is located on the left bank of the Dniester River and whose population is more than half ethnically Russian and Ukrainian, proclaimed independence from Moldova in the early 1990s, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Around 1,100 Russian soldiers are currently stationed in the region as peacekeepers in order to monitor a 1992 ceasefire between Chisinau and Tiraspol.

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko confirmed the stoppage of gas supplies on Wednesday, calling it a “historic event.” The minister claimed that due to the decision by Kiev “Russia is losing markets, it will suffer financial losses. Europe has already made a decision to give up Russian gas.” 

Ukraine refused to prolong the transit contract with Russia despite the fact that Gazprom has long-term agreements with several European buyers.

The leader of one such country, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, threatened last week to cut electricity supplies to Ukraine if the flow of gas ceases.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that the deadlock over gas supplies via Ukraine will not be resolved, adding that “this transit contract will not exist anymore, it’s clear. But we will manage; Gazprom will manage.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/610268-transnistria-ukraine-moldova-gas/

On New Year's Day, Russian gas stopped flowing through Ukraine.

Kyiv is calling it a "historic" day as its refusal to extend a transit agreement with Russia's Gazprom has halted the return flow of cash to fund the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

But in neighbouring Moldova, the move threatens to cause a crisis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ymx50kz8o

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Ukraine’s decision to cease transit of Russian natural gas to Europe will cost up to $1 billion annually, as it will no longer get fees from Moscow, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The government plans to offset the financial hit by drastically increasing gas tariffs for national industries, the news agency said.

Leader Vladimir Zelensky praised the move, calling it “a historic event” that would impose “financial losses” on Russia. He did not comment on the effects the decision could have for the Ukrainian economy.

According to Reuters, Ukraine has essentially quadrupled its domestic gas transmission tariffs. Effective January 1, 2025, the new rate is 502 hryvnias ($11.95) per 1,000 cubic meters, up from 124 hryvnias. This change could cost Ukrainian industries over 1.6 billion hryvnias ($38.2 million) annually, the agency said in another report published this week.

Ukraine’s transit network is connected to the pipeline systems of Moldova, Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, which then extends to Austria and Italy. The EU Commission has sought to downplay the impact of the gas deal ending by saying that the bloc’s “gas infrastructure is flexible enough to provide gas of non-Russian origin.”

“It has been reinforced with significant new LNG (liquefied natural gas) import capacities since 2022,” a spokesman for the commission told journalists.

The news of Ukraine ending Russian gas transit is expected to spark an increase in LNG prices in Asia, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, adding that European consumers still need to replace around 5% of their gas. The transit halt has already led to prices in the EU rising to €50 per megawatt hour for the first time in over a year.

Kiev’s move drew criticism from Bratislava. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico expressed concern over the impact on his country, slamming what he called the dominance of “selfish national interests” and “nonsensical geopolitical goals” within the EU.

https://www.rt.com/russia/610361-kive-lose-billion-gas-transit/

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