The Supreme Security Council, CSS, will discuss challenges related to Moldova's energy supply, the presidential administration said in a press release on Wednesday evening.
In a separate press release issued on Wednesday, Sandu condemned Russia's massive attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, stressing that they also affect Moldova's energy security, leaving villages and towns without electricity.
"We cannot trust a regime that leaves us in the dark and cold, that intentionally kills people, out of a simple desire to keep people in poverty and humiliation. However difficult it may be now, our only path, the future path of Moldova, must remain towards the free world," Sandu said.
On Wednesday, Russia launched multiple airstrikes on Ukrainian cities, knocking out power and water service in most of them, according to Ukrainian president's office. Moldova was in a similar situation on November 15, when over 100 Russian missiles hit major Ukrainian cities.
Moldovan power transmission company Moldelectrica said on Wednesday it has managed to restore power in most of the affected areas and urged consumers to save energy and not utilise appliances that use a lot of energy, in order to be able to reconnect to the grid as many clients as possible.
The infrastructure ministry explained in a social media post on Wednesday that even though Moldova now receives its energy from Romania and not Ukraine, its grid is tied to Ukraine's, and power blackouts happen due to the automatic disconnection of stations from the grid in order to prevent serious damage to the entire network.
The ministry reminded that earlier this year, Moldova started the construction of a 400 kV high-voltage overhead power line interconnection to Romania, namely between the cities of Vulcanesti and Chisinau, with a length of 158 km, which is scheduled be put into operation within two years.
"We are once again facing the situation of a week ago, and due to the bombing of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure by the Russian army, our country also suffers," prime minister Natalia Gavrilita said in a social media post on Wednesday.
"Of course, this endangers the normal functioning of educational institutions, hospitals, factories, manufacturing companies, but also people's daily lives," Gavrilita added.
