Every time planned electrical outages are imposed on his village in southern Moldova, 73-year-old retiree Vasili Donici passes the time by solving crosswords and puzzles in a room he illuminates using a small gas lamp.
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, halted gas supplies to Transnistria’s gas-operated Kuciurgan power plant, the country’s largest, which provided a significant portion of Moldova’s electricity. “What they want to achieve is to have a pro-Russian government in Moldova that would ultimately allow for the consolidation of the military capacity of Russia in the Transnistrian region, and correspondingly to use this leverage over Ukraine,” Recean told journalists in a closed call with other senior officials on Monday.
Moldova’s government this week announced plans to connect more than a dozen towns and villages under Chisinau’s control that are interconnected with energy infrastructure in Transnistria to energy networks in Moldova.
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