{"id":823,"date":"2025-01-09T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/ukraine-to-help-moldova-amid-worsening-energy-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:02:02","slug":"ukraine-to-help-moldova-amid-worsening-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/ukraine-to-help-moldova-amid-worsening-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to help Moldova amid worsening energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/zelensky.jpeg\" alt=\"Ukraine to help Moldova amid worsening energy crisis\"><\/p>\n<p>Kyiv and Chisinau are working together to find solutions to the ongoing energy crisis in Moldova, President Volodymyr Zelensky and Moldovan President Maia Sandu announced on Jan. 8. <\/p>\n<p>The Russian state energy company Gazprom <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-officially-halts-gas-supplies-to-moldovas-transnistria\/\"><strong>cut off gas supplies<\/strong><\/a> to Moldova on Jan. 1, triggering widespread power outages and heating failures in the Russian-occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/transnistria\/\"><strong>Transnistria<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>region.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky and Sandu held a telephone conversation on Jan. 8 in which they discussed the energy crisis and Russia&#8217;s role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An important task now is to help Moldova overcome its energy challenges and prevent Moscow from stirring up social tensions. &#8230; We are ready to help,&#8221; Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/12925\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a> in his evening address. <\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said the current crisis represents &#8220;an obvious attempt by Russia to manipulate energy resources against the Moldovan authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Sandu&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/presedinte.md\/rom\/comunicate-de-presa\/presedinta-maia-sandu-a-discutat-cu-presedintele-ucrainei-volodymyr-zelenskyy-despre-situatia-umanitara-din-regiunea-transnistreana-si-securitatea-regionala\"><strong>press service<\/strong><\/a>, the two leaders are collaborating on &#8220;common solutions&#8221; to prevent the emergency from devolving further, including using alternative fuel sources, such as coal. <\/p>\n<p>The Moldovan government has accused Moscow of deliberately manufacturing the crisis in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-is-fueling-transnistria-energy-crisis-for-propaganda-destabilization-moldova-says\/\"><strong>destabilize the country.<\/strong><\/a> Gazprom claims the decision to cut off gas supplies resulted from Moldova&#8217;s unpaid debts, an allegation Chisinau disputes. <\/p>\n<p>An agreement to transit Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine expired on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-wont-extend-russian-gas-transit-zelensky-confirms\/\"><strong>same day<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>that<strong> <\/strong>Russia ended gas deliveries to Moldova, but <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/gazprom\/\"><strong>Gazprom<\/strong><\/a> maintains that the suspension was prompted by debts, not transit issues. Alternative routes for gas from Russia to Moldova are available. <\/p>\n<p>While the rest of Moldova has transitioned to European <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/gas\/\"><strong>energy<\/strong><\/a> supplies, the breakaway Transnistria region \u2014\u00a0occupied by Russian troops since the 1990s \u2014 remains heavily dependent on <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/russian-gas\/\"><strong>Russian gas<\/strong><\/a>. The region&#8217;s electricity system is now on the<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/transnistrias-electricity-supply-system-faces-collapse-moldovan-official-warns\/\"><strong> brink of collapse.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/transnistrias-electricity-supply-system-faces-collapse-moldovan-official-warns\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Transnistria\u2019s electricity supply system faces collapse amid gas shortage, Moldovan official warns<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">The electricity supply system in the Russian-occupied Moldovan region of Transnistria is under risk of collapse after the halt of Russian gas flow, a high-ranking official of Moldova\u2019s Energy Ministry warned in a Facebook post on Jan. 5.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine to help Moldova amid worsening energy crisis\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Boldizsar Gyori<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1686320111-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine to help Moldova amid worsening energy crisis\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-to-help-moldova-amid-worsening-energy-crisis\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv and Chisinau are working together to find solutions to the ongoing energy crisis in Moldova, President Volodymyr Zelensky and Moldovan President Maia Sandu announced on Jan. 8. 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