Ust-Luga is one of Russia’s key western export hubs for oil products and condensate on the Baltic, used to move large volumes to foreign markets.

Ust-Luga handles around 700,000 barrels per day of oil exports and exported 32.9 million metric tons of oil products last year.

This was a deep strike, roughly 1,000 km from Ukrainian territory in some estimates.

It shows Ukraine can still reach strategic infrastructure near the Gulf of Finland and close to the Estonian border.

The steel is said to be part of a broader shipment chain linked to Israel’s munitions industry, including artillery and tank ammunition production.

Some dockworkers and activists in countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, and Türkiye opposed handling the cargo, while Egypt allowed the vessel to unload.

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According to the piece, coalition forces fired 11,294 munitions in just over two weeks at an estimated cost of about $26 billion, including more than 5,000 munitions in the first 96 hours alone.

The authors argue the bigger problem is the cost-exchange ratio: using multi-million-dollar interceptors to shoot down far cheaper Iranian drones and missiles.

One of the starkest examples: coalition forces reportedly fired around 509,500 rounds from C-RAM and similar gun systems, costing only about $25 million, while spending at least $19 billion on missile interceptors over the same period.

RUSI warns the real danger is not just how much has been spent, but how hard it will be to replace.

The authors say the current $26 billion wartime expenditure could cost more than $50 billion to replenish, because wartime production surges are slower and much more expensive.

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Israeli prosecutors have indicted a 14-year-old boy from central Israel on charges of contact with a foreign agent and passing information to Iran, after allegedly carrying out paid tasks for Iranian handlers.

According to the indictment, the teen was instructed to spray anti-government graffiti across Tel Aviv and on the home of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, film the Kirya military headquarters, and was even asked to rent an apartment near the Kirya.

In response, he reportedly sent a photo of a rental listing and contacted several local landlords who matched the request.

After being questioned, he allegedly tried to get a classmate to lie to investigators and claim that the $1,170 found in his digital wallets had come from him.