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Transnistria's energy emergency, as of 12 January 2025
Summary
A look back at the breakaway region's extended state of emergency after Russian gas supplies stopped.
What happened in Transnistria after the gas stopped flowing? By 12 January 2025, Moldova's unrecognised breakaway region was living with an energy crisis that had already prompted an emergency declaration, and on 10 January it extended its state of emergency for another month.
The cause was the suspension of Russian gas supplies. Transnistria stopped receiving natural gas from Russia 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. 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 cost was also reported: three people died in Transnistria and several more were injured by carbon monoxide poisoning, and cases of hypothermia were recorded.
The one-month extension announced on 10 January showed that authorities in the region did not expect the situation to be resolved quickly.
