On January 1, Gazprom suspended gas deliveries to Transnistria, a separatist territory of Moldova, as a consequence of Ukraine's failure to extend the transit agreement for this natural material. At the same time, Russia refused to send it via an alternate route, utilizing TurkStream and the Trans-Balkan pipeline, making the agreement to specified a variant conditional on Moldova settling its alleged debt, which, according to the Russian side, amounts to $709 million.
