The head of the Republic of Moldova‘s natural gas company said it had paid $53.5 million to Russian state gas firm Gazprom on Thursday to settle its bill for September gas deliveries, and sent it a $27.4 million advance payment for October deliveries, according to Reuters.
Moldovagaz director Vadim Ceban wrote on the Telegram messaging app that the company had received a loan from the government so that it could pay for supplies. In early October, Gazprom said it could shut off gas to Moldova completely unless all contractual obligations were met.