MOLDOVA – Moldova’s President, Maia Sandu, received assurances regarding Bucharest’s full support for Chișinău in the context of the energy crisis in this country. President Sandu on Tuesday met Romania’s president, Klaus Iohannis, and Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă in Bucharest, expressing gratitude for their support and Romania’s actions to facilitate the provision of electricity, natural gas, fuel oil and firewood to Moldovan citizens. Furthermore, Maia Sandu thanked Romania for quickly responding to offset Moldova’s electricity deficit. We recall Bucharest has started supplying electricity and natural gas to Moldova after Ukraine has ceased energy exports to Moldova after its energy infrastructure was affected by Russian bombings.
REFUGEES – The Border Police Inspectorate announced some 65 thousand people entered Romania on Tuesday, of whom 7,500 were Ukrainian nationals. According to a press release, some 2.7 million Ukrainians have entered Romania starting February 10, most of them headed to countries in Western Europe. Over 86,500 Ukrainians have chosen to stay.
SHIPMENTS – Russia today agreed to resume grain exports from Ukraine after receiving „guarantees in writing” from Ukraine regarding the demilitarization of the maritime corridor used for their transport. On Saturday, Moscow suspended grain exports invoking drone attacks on Russian military watercraft in the port of Sevastopol. Russia claimed the drones moved along the secure corridor addressing trade vessels transporting Ukrainian grain. On Monday, Russia had warned against the „danger” of freight ships continuing to navigate the corridor used by Ukrainian trade vessels to reach the Mediterranean through the Bosporus strait without its consent.
