Breakaway Moldovan region cuts heating and hot water as Russia stops gas flow

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/01/breakaway-moldovan-region-cuts-heating-and-hot-water-as-russia-stops-gas-flow

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18 comments

  1. Tiraspol is not moldovas main city. It is in Transnistria, the russian puppet region that wants to be separate from moldova

  2. So will russia find a way to Support their “Friends” in transnistria or will they drop them as they did with Assad?

  4. So now the waiting game until Transnistria collapeses?

    Seems insane that they had no plan beyond “dress warmly, gather family members together in a single room, hang blankets or thick curtains over windows”

    “A company employee told Reuters by phone that she did not know how long the situation would last.”

    From people from the area, are we talking about days, months or years until things go completly to shit?

  5. Ukraine cut the supply. Their contract with Russia to allow transit of gas through pipelines across Ukraine has ended and they did not renew.
    Everyone knew this was going to happen. ~~Slovenia~~ Slovakia, Hungry, Transnistria.

    If they didn’t make arrangements prior then that’s on them.

  6. So they do not have a Sheriff gas supply company there?

  7. The whole place is complicated. Its main employer (Sheriff) s gigantic and literally everywhere. They strangely mainly import from Ukraine.

    I spend 6 months living in that area and documenting the place till war broke out. Sheriff is everything and everywhere. There are also no real jobs there. Most people just ‘work in europe’, illegally in some supermarket or other shitty job on their tourist visa for 3 months, and then come back and survive with their family for a few months, spending money in Sheriff grocery stores and getting gasoline in Sheriff gas stations.

    A few years some person tried to open another grocery store, but it … didn’t last long… lets just keep it like that.

    Actual gas + electricity was (almost) free for the people due to russian gas. The main ‘goverment’ obtained a lot of money from selling it to Moldova and crypto mining (commission’s). Now that this is gone – I think it’s going to collapse. This was the money holding the power together, knowing the area, they aren’t known for being big savers – so yeah. People will leave as its winter and fucking cold. Many already left or were trying to leave for years, but couldn’t due to being reliant on Russian pensions.

    in case anyone is still reading, [here’s the article](https://joelgugler.com/sheriff/)

  10. The story of this gas pipeline is shocking. Just goes to show you can predict nothing.

    Russia has been supplying gas *via Ukraine* through years of war. A war where multiple *nuclear* energy plants have been fought over. Russia has heavily targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Ukraine has targeted Russia’s energy resources. Ukraine’s energy-poor allies have sanctioned Russian energy.

    But somehow… this *voluntary* commercial arrangement has persevered. Payments presumably made to all parties on time and in good order.

    What a weird world.

  11. Russia stops gas frow or Ukraine stops transport russian gas through county?

  12. It’s a shame they couldn’t see this coming and prepare in anyway… The war in Ukraine been going on for 3 years; talks about gas supply since at least that and starting from 2014 the furthest or even 2008. But hey! That’s not enough time to prepare… least of all when there is 0 will to do so.

  14. Blows my mind that the decision to finally liberate Transnistria hasn’t been made yet. As long as Russia occupies the place, Moldova will be stuck in a political grey area where they can for example never join the EU.

  15. The illegitimate occupiers should do the right thing, take the 1500 occupying ru troops and retire to Moscow. Surely Vova has a nice dacha for them and the troops are needed at the front anyway.

    Peaceful reunification solves everyone’s problems.

  16. Moldova offered to help. Transnistria refused.

    According to a few folks in r/moldova Russian misinformation is already blaming Sandu, Romania and the EU for the situation.

    Russia basically caused this so they could then blame it on the EU and make it hard for pro-EU parties to win the 2025 parliamentary election in Moldova.

    Classic Russian false flag operation.

    At least that’s my understanding of it.

  17. I guess Transnistria is Moldova, no? All that Russia supporting Russians abroad is just really Russia using Russian speakers as pawns

    I’m shocked….

  18. Someone should start a troll farm for Transnistria and show people that they want to join Moldova.

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