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I'm John Batsu with my colleague Antonio Kalabashano of Geopolitical Future.

She's also a professor at the National University in Bucharest.

Next door is Moldova, a small state, extremely beleaguered because of its...

surrounded by Odessa Oblast, that's Ukraine.

It also has a breakaway part, Transnistria. And now, the headlines in these last

hours, Moldova poised to declare state of emergency and energy sector, or Moldova to declare

a state of emergency is set to declare a state because the energy sector is to be cut off from natural gas

flowing through chansinistria the breakaway part of the country moldova sacks energy minister

over failure to tackle crisis i believe what we're what is implicit in these headlines is

that maldova's about to go dark. Is that correct, Antonia?

Pretty much that's the case. So Transnistria is not only a breakaway region, but also hosts some

Russian military on its territory to make certain that Transnistria remains somewhat independent of Moldova.

But at the same time, all natural gas is coming through, from Russia, is coming through

Transnistria.

And the electricity that goes into the energy system in Moldova is pretty much based on the natural

...