Gazprom's board is proposing that about 1,600 managers and administrators be cut from its headquarters at St. Petersburg, citing recent challenges.

The move comes as the company has effectively lost its European export market, with the only remaining gas route to Europe now running through Turkey. Read also: Gazprom eyes massive 40% central staff cut,

"The transit of gas ended on Jan. 1, as the Ukrainian side has repeatedly informed at the highest level," said the diplomat. “It is not planned to be resumed. We have indeed informed the European side (at the EU summit) about our position.

Gazprom is considering cutting about 40% of its headquarters staff - more than 1,500 job cuts - as the Russian gas giant grapples with the loss of most of its sales to Europe, state news agency TASS reported on Monday.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine launched six ATACMS missiles overnight at the Bryansk region, but that all of them were downed by air defenses. The ministry also said that 146 Ukrainian drones had been shot down outside the conflict zone over the last day.

Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Turkey and Europe, and called the attack an "act of energy terrorism".

Flows of gas via the Turkstream pipeline unaffected after air defences downed the drones, defence ministry in Moscow says

The Biden administration on Friday targeted Russia’s energy sector, including its oil industry, with some of its harshest sanctions to date meant to cut off funding for Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

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The historic first marks a milestone in Washington’s bid to replace Russia as Europe’s top source of natural gas.

"An important task now is to help Moldova overcome its energy challenges and prevent Moscow from stirring up social tensions. ... We are ready to help," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan. 8.

Two weeks have passed since the Russian gas transit through Ukraine was stopped, and despite all the efforts of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, there are almost no prospects for resuming supplies.