“The current gas tariff does not cover the purchase price.

I think this was done deliberately so that the Moldovagaz company could not pay off Gazprom,” he wrote on Telegram.

The former president added that Moldovan leader Maia Sandu and Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu intend to block the agreement with the Russian company in order to buy gas "offshore under incomprehensible schemes."

Earlier, Dodon called on the Moldovan authorities to immediately start negotiations with Russia on an affordable gas price.

Vadim Cheban, chairman of the board of the Moldovagaz gas distribution company, informed that the cost of Russian gas for Moldova will increase in August to $1,458.5 per 1,000 cubic meters.

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Sandu also said that the people of the country should prepare for a hard winter due to the energy situation.