The accident at the pipeline led to a sharp decline in shipments to the Balkans.

Supply of fuel to the Balkans has been reduced by 40 percent due to an accident at Pipeline in Transdniestria, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the data of Gazprom. According to the press secretary of "Naftogaz Ukraine" Valentine Zemlianskaia, the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to the Balkans is reduced by one third. Per diem supply of fuel through the pipeline has been reduced from 40 to 24 million cubic meters.
Bulgaria has interruptions in the supply of gas is not felt, but move forward to reduce the volume of fuel, reports AFP. According to the company Bulgartransgaz, fuel supplied in sufficient quantities, but in the case of reducing its volume, end-users that do not will feel. Missing volumes of gas from the company intends to compensate for backup storage.
Russian gas supplied to Bulgaria through the territory of Ukraine, Moldova and Romania. Part of the fuel accumulated in the country, and the remaining volumes are transported to Turkey, Greece and Macedonia. As explained RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the Greek Public Gas Corporation DEPA, Greece interruption in the supply of Russian gas, also has not yet been felt.
According to Gazprom, the reduction of gas supplies to Turkey via the Balkans will be offset by an increase in the gas flow on the "Blue Stream". The supply of fuel in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Greece will continue with the previous volumes on the Balkan route.
The accident at the pipeline in Transnistria took place the morning of 1 April 2009. On the tube gas pipeline Ananyev-Odessa-Ismail, near Tiraspol, an explosion occurred. The pipeline has been temporarily blocked, and the transit of gas to the Balkans had been terminated. The reason for the accident has not yet been established.