Global energy and maritime infrastructure faced intensifying geopolitical strain across multiple theaters. In Russia, Ukrainian strikes inflicted severe damage on the Samara oil pipeline control station—a key hub producing Urals crude that comprises up to 50% of Russian oil exports—and the Astrakhan gas processing plant, which supplies about half of Russia's technical sulphur for explosives, while Russian overnight missile and drone strikes on Ukraine's energy sector killed at least 19 people. Concurrently, drone attacks on commercial grain vessels in Bulgarian and Romanian waters prompted…