Transdniestria, a breakaway region of Moldova, is experiencing power cuts due to a lack of Russian gas supplies after Ukraine refused to extend a transit contract. The region, which relies on Russian gas via Ukraine for electricity production, faces a potential energy crisis as reserves are limited.
KYIV (Reuters) - Power cuts will continue on Saturday in the breakaway Moldova n region of Transdniestria , which has been left without Russia n gas supplies following Ukraine 's decision not to extend a contract for Russia n gas transit, local authorities said. Flows of Russia n gas via Ukraine to central and eastern Europe were halted on New Year's Day after the expiry of a transit agreement between the warring countries, and Kyiv rejected doing further business with Moscow.
The mainly Russian-speaking region, which lies along the Moldova-Ukraine border and which split from Moldova in the 1990s, had been receiving Russian gas via Ukraine and used it to produce electricity. The official Telegram news channel of Transdniestria's government said power supplies would be cut for three hours between 2 p.m. (1200 GMT) and 5 p.m. in many districts. The enclave's self-styled president Vadim Krasnoselsky had earlier said power cuts were inevitable. He said the region had gas reserves to cover 10 days of limited usage in the north and twice as long in the south. He did not say if there were any plans to source supplies after that. On Saturday, Krasnoselsky said on Telegram that the blackouts could be extended to four hours on Sunday. Russia denies using gas as a weapon to coerce Moldova, and blames Kyiv for refusing to renew the gas transit deal. Moldova itself gets around 60% of its gas needs from Romania and produces the rest. But the Transdniestria power cuts are a problem for Moldova particularly because the enclave is home to a power plant which provides most of the power for government-controlled areas of Moldova at a fixed and low price. Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Friday his country faced a security crisis after Transdniestria's imposition of rolling blackouts, but he also said the Chisinau government had prepared alternative arrangements, with a mixture of domestic production and electricity imports from Romani
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