🇺🇸❌🇨🇺🤝🇷🇺 — Financial Times reports that two Russian ships carrying oil and gas are on their way to Cuba, despite US pressures and sanctions under Trump's administration.

➡️These shipments come at a time when Cuba is facing a severe energy crisis, as evidenced by recent nationwide power outages and months-long fuel supply disruptions.

➡️This additional supply may help alleviate the shortages that have disrupted hospitals, transportation, and daily life.

🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - IRGC Missiles targeting central Israel.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Red alerts in Tel Aviv and its surroundings.

🇮🇷❌🇸🇦 - NASA Fire Anomaly data shows burning at the Saudi Arabia oil export terminal of Yanbu. This is consistent with an earlier claim by Iran of attacks on the facility.

Yanbu, located in Saudi Red Sea coast, is the kingdom only operational oil export terminal. It is currently offloading 4 million barrel per day.

The Yanbu infrastructure is partially financed by China in a joint project with Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼- Kuwait is battling uncontrollable fires at the ports of Mina Al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries after they were targeted by Iran.

Mina Al-Ahmadi & Mina Abdullah are Kuwait’s main oil refineries, producing 800,000 barrels a day.

🇮🇷❌🇶🇦- The aftermath at Ras Laffan in Qatar after Iranian strikes.

The LNG plant is mostly on fire it is highly unlikely to be put out anytime soon.

🇮🇷❌🇪🇺📈 - European gas price is up 30% overnight as the damage in Qatari gas facilities are being assessed. A heavy damage scenario would means the Qatari LNG facilities staying offline for months if not years.

Europe relies on Qatar for a sizable portion of its gas import as it distances itself from Russian pipeline gas. The situation is exacerbated by Europe record low gas storage level at the onset of the crisis.

🇦🇪🤝🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - UAE reaffirmed its commitment to invest $1.4 trillion in the United States despite the conflict in Iran. Policymakers remain steadfast in building deeper ties with the US, despite the Emirates bearing the brunt of Iranian missile attacks.

UAE ambassador to the US also added “This is not a war we wanted, and we worked intensely to avoid it. But even as we held hope and pursued de-escalation, we also knew a war could someday come.”

UAE is well positioned to recover from the conflict, having stashed away more than $2 trillion in its sovereign wealth funds.

🇪🇬- Egypt is introducing energy rationing measures shops and malls are forced to close at 9pm on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends, aswell as reduced street lighting, and possible remote work to cope with soaring fuel costs caused by the Iran war.

Gas import costs jumped from $560M to $1.65B/month, that’s more than double forcing rationing throughout the country.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🛢 #BREAKING - US Treasury Secretary just discussed the possibility to waive sanction for Iranian oil that is already at sea in an interview with Fox Business.

1⃣ Secretary Bessent estimated that there is around 140 million barrels of crude at sea, the unfreezing of which will make up for 10-14 days of oil supply deficit.

2⃣ The waiver would redirect the Iranian oil from China to US allies, alleviating the shortage. China would get less oil discount, but Iran would be able to sell its oil at a higher price.

3⃣ Bessent dismissed speculation that the Treasury is intervening in the oil market.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧- IDF strike targeted RT correspondent Steve Sweeney on the "AlQasmiya" bridge on air in Lebanon.

Steve and his cameraman were injured by shrapnel but are in stable condition.

🇪🇺❌🇺🇸 - Disenchanted European Leaders are expressing growing discontent over Trump's 'Pointless' War in Iran.

1⃣ As the prospect of a quick victory diminished, Europe, still struggling to wean itself off Russian oil and gas, is increasingly concerned about a new energy crisis.

2⃣ Spain has been the most vocal in its criticism, calling the war illegal and claiming it undermined global rules. France, Greece, Norway and notably Germany have explicitly ruled out their participation in the war. Others are stepping up their criticism.

3⃣ The war introduced new irritants in the already tense Transatlantic ties. President Trump is deeply unhappy with lack of support from NATO. Previous disputes between US and EU, over Ukraine, Tariff and Greenland are still latent.

4⃣ A key Trump ally in Europe, Victor Orban of Hungary, is facing a difficult reelection fight next month. Hungary is among the most vulnerable countries to an energy crisis in Europe, with Ukraine having severed Hungary's pipeline from Russia.

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — The American Secretary of War:

Today will be the largest package yet. We're hunting and striking, death and destruction from above.

🇮🇷❌🇶🇦🛢 - Qatar Energy CEO says the Iranian attack overnight damaged ~17% of its LNG production capacity, and it would take 3-5 years to repair the damage, via Reuters.

Qatar makes up 20% of the global LNG supply.

🇮🇷❌🇶🇦- The estimated Annual losses from the damaged facilities are about $20 billion. For the next 3-5 years that equals anywhere from $60 - $100 Billion.