“There is no point talking to Gazprom, because this is the deliberate decision of the Kremlin – to induce this humanitarian crisis,” Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said in a Zoom call with international reporters.
“Russia is trying to again weaponize energy, this time in the region that it controls, in order to produce a security crisis here in Moldova, to change the government for a pro-Russian government that would allow for the consolidation of the military in the Transnistrian region and, correspondingly, exercise even more pressure on Ukraine.”