Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita plans to request 450 million euros from EU countries amid the very real probability that Russia's Gazprom will stop supplying gas this winter.

“The worst case scenario is that a full disconnection happens,”  Gavrilitsa told POLITICO.

The energy crisis has forced Moldova to buy electricity at a price four times the previous price on the European spot market, Gavrilitsa said, adding that she will ask Moldova's European partners for 450 million euros in aid this winter at a high-level solidarity summit organized by France on Nov. 21.

“We are seeing increased security risks and anxiety, we are seeing a loss in purchasing power and a loss in real wages,” Gavrilitsa said. "We are hit orders of magnitude more by the same problems that European countries have, but at the same time, we are much weaker to deal with these problems.”