Collapse: They are threatened by freezing; This is a brutal attack PHOTO/VIDEO
On New Year's Day, Russian gas stopped flowing through Ukraine to Europe. Kyiv is calling it a "historic" moment because the refusal to extend the transit contract with Russia's Gazprom has stopped the flow of money financing the invasion of Ukraine. | In Transnistria, a separatist region in eastern Moldova loyal to Moscow, the year began with only hospitals and key infrastructure having heating, while homes remained without heating. Transnistria broke away from the rest of Moldova in a short war after the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are still Russian troops on its territory, and they are completely dependent on Russian gas, for which the authorities in Tiraspol do not pay anything. "They simply keep track of the debt every month," explains Jakub Pieńkoski of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). "But Russia is not interested in collecting that money."