Even while at war, Ukraine piped Russian gas to Europe. Moscow earned an estimated $5 billion in 2024, while Ukraine raked in up to $1 billion in fees.

The Russian gas company Gazprom on Saturday said it will no longer supply natural gas to Moldova in the new year, blaming the country's alleged debts. Gazprom said the country's gas company Moldovagaz "regularly fails to fulfil its payment obligations under the existing contract,

Moldovans are bracing for a difficult winter ahead as a looming energy shortage could leave them without enough energy.

Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom says it will halt gas supplies to Moldova starting on Jan. 1, citing alleged unpaid debt by the east European country Russia’s state-owned energy ...

Halting gas supplies to Europe is a massive personal defeat for Vladimir Putin. If someone had told him on Jan. 1, 2022, that in three years Russia’s gas exports to the EU would completely stop along with the flow of money back,

"Izvestia's stringer Alexander Martemyanov was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on a car on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway," the statement said. The security forces added that only a little more than two kilometers remain before the road is completely under Russian control

The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.

NEW YORK, January 4. /TASS/. The US is not close to direct conflict with Russia, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the New York Times.

Some 1,500 high-rise buildings in Transnistria are currently without heating and hot water, and nearly 72,000 homes are without gas.

The plunging Russian currency, the ruble, has added to inflationary pressures in Russia, British officials have said, as the country faces further economic turbulence exacerbated by the ending of its natural gas transit deal with Ukraine.