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- Journalists photographed 12.7-mm Kord machine guns mounted on the civilian tanker Marshal Vasilevskiy, which also carried two dozen Russian military personnel.
- The United Kingdom sanctioned the Marshal Vasilevskiy in 2024 for supporting Russia’s war economy.
- Gazprom owns the vessel, which can reconvert super-cooled LNG to gas and runs from Bolshoy Bor to Kaliningrad.
- Defense experts say the guns are intended to pressure NATO countries and deter possible Ukrainian attacks.
