Georgia was left without gas after explosions last Sunday at a pipeline in Russia. The blasts also cut a major power line and on Thursday high winds severed another cable leaving the country without electricity. New gas supplies from Iran would arrive by Sunday night at the earliest, officials said, but it might take days for the gas to flow through pipes to reach Georgians, who are trying to keep warm around makeshift wood-burning stoves. "My kids are freezing and my patience is running out," said Lia Davitashvili, a Tbilisi resident who has been trying to keep her two children warm without gas for a week and without electricity for three days. She was using an oil stove after queuing for three hours on Friday for subsidized oil supplied by the government. The temperature in Tbilisi rose to 2 Celsius (35.6 Fahrenheit) yesterday. Georgia, a Caucasus state of 4.5 million on the Black Sea, agreed with Iran on Friday to bring gas via neighboring Azerbaijan, but it was unclear if the additional supply could cover demand in the coldest winter for a decade. Supplies from Russia are still cut, cooling relations between Moscow and Tbilisi even further. President Mikhail Saakashvili, who rose to power on the back of the "Rose Revolution" in 2003, has accused Russia of deliberately blowing up the gas pipeline and then dragging its heels over repairing it to put pressure on Georgia. Moscow denied the allegation, accused Tbilisi of hysteria and said it was doing everything to repair the pipeline. Russian gas workers quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency said they hoped the gas pipeline to Georgia would be repaired by the end of the weekend. Tbilisi's mayor, Gigi Ugulava, told Reuters by telephone that the capital was still undersupplied with electricity. "This means that about 30 percent of Tbilisi's residents are not getting electricity," Ugulava said. He added that city officials had organized a revolving timetable so that every district had some power and that wood and bread were being given out free to the poor. "We are waiting for supplies of natural gas from Iran, which are expected to arrive on Monday," he said. Supplies from Iran were agreed on Friday but it was unclear how long it would take for the gas to get to people's homes. Georgia is expecting to receive about 2 million cubic meters of gas a day from Iran and 2.5-3 million cubic meters a day from Azerbaijan. The daily requirement for the whole country is between 5 and 6 million cubic meters. PIN/REUTERS