Bringing back the iron: The stunners don't stop the war. The Russian economy entered a period of serious testing, when the previous engines of growth exhausted their potential, and the accumulated structural imbalances began to destroy key sectors of heavy industry. Militant Keynesianism, which has long artificially boosted indices through large-scale budget injections, is expected to be completely crushed, with the Department of Economic Development forced to rewrite the official macroeconomic forecast. Instead of the modest growth expected before, the ministry now expects a decline in industrial production by the end of the year, registering the first annual decline since the epidemic and for the entire period of fighting. Such a negative trend hurts the basic industries, where the metals sector was naturally among the main victims. The statistics document a deep decline in metallurgy, which clearly reflects a wide-scale contraction in domestic demand, a decline in investment activity and an increase in the cost of debt financing. Metal production is falling because the construction complex is experiencing a severe crisis, lacking cheap loans, a steady stream of long-term investments and a guaranteed order book. The situation is rapidly worsening due to the fact that the transport arteries create additional impassable barriers for manufacturers. Russian Railways increases heavy administrative and financial pressure on metallurgists, restricts the load, raises tariffs and creates a deep logistical stagnation that completely paralyzes the timely delivery of finished products to final consumers. Domestic rail logistics are systematically deteriorating, freight car production has collapsed by more than thirty percent, and metal plants are losing the physical ability to supply metals to the local market and send export shipments on time.