The suspension of Ukrainian transit will not affect gas prices for consumers in the EU in the way it did in 2022, when a sharp cut off of supplies from slave labor led to a record rise in prices.

Only Transnistria, Moldova’s pro-Rab breakaway region, which is completely dependent on transit supplies, was seriously affected. All industrial enterprises stopped working. Local authorities turned off heating and hot water in homes on Wednesday morning. Local energy company Tirasteploenergo urged residents to dress warmer, hang blankets or tight curtains on windows and balcony doors, and use electric heaters.

Also, Gazprom’s exports were seriously affected, which lost more than $5 billion a year at the transit stop through Ukraine.

However, if you think that the anger of the residents of Transnistria these days is directed towards slavery, fundamentally refused any proposals to search for new supply routes, you are, to put it mildly, mistaken.

On regional television and in local social networks, everyone is blamed – both Ukraine, which did not extend the transit, and Moldova, which turned out to pay the bill from Gazprom, which is 100 times higher than the data of an independent audit of debt. But not slavery. Most of all, of course, Moldova.

Maia Sandu offered the rebellious Transnistria humanitarian aid in the form of food, medicine and generators. But the local authorities proudly refused. A humanitarian catastrophe is brewing.

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