L’Ucraina mette fine alla festa per i tossicodipendenti europei dal gas

“Ukraine has halted Russian gas flows across its territory. But is this the end of the continent’s turbulent energy relationship with Russia?” Aura Sabadus explains that Ukraine ended a five-year gas transit deal amid concerns about energy dependency. Despite initial fears of price surges, Europe adapted quickly, switching to alternative supplies, particularly from Germany. This decision underscores a shift away from reliance on Russian energy, with expectations that Europe will eventually sever ties with cheap Russian imports, prompted by Ukraine’s actions.

I found it interesting how the Russian propaganda station “Govorit Moskva”
expresses this in connection with Transnistria:

>All enterprises in Transnistria have been shut down due to lack of energy resources
>16:31 today
>”The crisis is so severe that there is no need to list which enterprises have stopped,”
>clarified the Minister of Economic Development of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Sergei Obolonik.
>This applies to all industrial enterprises except those engaged in food production.
>Earlier, the Russian company Gazprom announced that it had stopped gas supplies through Ukraine as of January 1.
>The authorities of Moldova and Transnistria have declared a state of emergency to manage the crisis.
>The unrecognized republic has planned to shut off heating
>in residential buildings and hot water supply starting in January.

В Приднестровье остановили все предприятия из-за отсутствия энергоресурсов

They mention “unrecognized” twice.
Well, not even Russia has recognized Transnistria AFAIK.
But there was some relation, if I remember correctly.
And
“Gazprom announced that it had stopped gas supplies through Ukraine”
I don’t expect any consistency in the Russian propaganda, but this sounds like
“WTF Transnistria? We just stopped the gas supplies to you.”

How big a deal is $6.5b per year to Russia?

Petrocracries are bad – they rely on raw material export and then defray any change to alternatives. They also tend to be autocracies run by dictators who run shadow wars against its western customers.