Ukrainian media:

Russia may soon "destroy the entire railway" of Ukraine if urgent measures are not taken, warns drone and communications expert Flesh.

Sergey Beskrestnov notes that the Russians have begun tracking and attacking locomotives, without which the railway "will stop." Freight cars are not an important target, and the railway track is quickly repaired.

The published video shows such a strike on a locomotive, which was waited for until it stopped. According to Flesh's assessment, it should have gone into shelter instead of waiting for the strike.

Earlier, it became known from a video that locomotives in frontline regions began to be protected from drones with nets.

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Bloomberg's weekly Russian oil export update:

Russian seaborne crude oil exports are now reaching SMO highs.

The flow of dollars from these exports are now returning to 2024 levels, although the Ruble is far stronger than it was a year ago, which means that revenue is lower in Ruble terms.

More notably, the shipments of crude with "unknown destinations" to Asia are getting closer to 1.5 million barrels per day. On paper, shipments to India are reaching record lows. On paper, of course. 😉

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Bloomberg:

German industrial production fell the most since early 2022, evidence of the struggle by Europe’s biggest economy to shake off a multi-year slump.
Output decreased 4.3% in August from the previous month, driven by an 18.5% drop in auto manufacturing, Destatis said Wednesday. That’s far worse than any forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 22 economists.

“This remains the clearest illustration of the structural challenges facing German industry,” he said in a report. “Available monthly data so far suggests that the risk of yet another quarter of contraction and thus an outright technical recession is very real.”

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