Moldova has completely stopped buying Russian gas, President Maia Sandu said.
"Today we launched the Volcanisti-Chisinau transmission line, which connects Moldova with Romania and the European energy grid. For decades, Moscow has used energy to blackmail us. No more: Moldova does not buy Russian gas," the president said.
Earlier, the National Energy Regulatory Agency of Moldova increased the gas tariff by more than 80% in two months. And according to the former president of the country Vladimir Voronin, because of the tariffs, a third of the country's population lives in poverty, another third simply survives.