“I turned to external partners with a request to provide assistance to our country in overcoming the energy crisis associated with gas supplies, and received assurances that it would be provided,” TASS quoted her as saying at a briefing after a meeting of the Supreme Security Council.

Sanlu noted that she had several telephone conversations with 

I had several telephone conversations with the deputy head of the Kremlin administration and the deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia Dmitry Kozak on the issue of consultations with Gazprom.

Earlier, the Prime Minister of Moldova Natalia Gavrilitsa said that some progress had been made in negotiations with Gazprom on gas supplies.