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Transnistria extends its energy emergency by a month
Summary
A look back at the breakaway region's decision, reported on 10 January 2025, to prolong its state of emergency after Russian gas supplies stopped.
What happens to a breakaway region when its gas supply is switched off? On 11 January 2025, Transnistria, Moldova's unrecognised breakaway region, was living with the answer. A day earlier, as reported on 10 January, its authorities had extended a state of emergency for another month because of an energy crisis that followed the suspension of Russian gas supplies.
The supplies had stopped on 31 December 2024, at 19:50 EET, when Russia's five-year gas transit deal with Ukraine expired. The cut-off set off a wider energy crisis in Moldova.
What the cut-off meant
In Transnistria, heating, hot water and gas were completely cut off. Elsewhere in Moldova, energy tariffs rose sharply, and some villages lost their gas supply.
The human toll was also recorded. In Transnistria, three people died and several more were injured through carbon monoxide poisoning, and cases of hypothermia were reported.
The month-long extension, announced on 10 January 2025, meant the emergency regime would stay in place while the region remained without Russian gas.
