Sunday, March 15, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/sunday-march-15-2026/

via @meduza_en: https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/114383086379724482

In there a link to this: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/29/russian-authorities-sign-contracts-to-send-orphans-and-disabled-children-to-oil-polluted-black-sea-beaches

Anybody else feel reminded of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4 ?

#AktionT4 #Crimea #Kerch #KerchStrait #Volgoneft ##2024BlackSeaOilSpill #BlackSea

#ruZZia #ruZZiaIsATerroristState

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

#Russia suffering '#EnvironmentalCatastrophe' after #OilSpill in #KerchStrait

Joshua Cheetham, Olga Robinson & Matt Murphy, January 23, 2025

"Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed #Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged in the #BlackSea.

"Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank.

​​"Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the #SeaOfAzov.

"A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst '#EnvironmentalCatastrophe' of the 21st Century.

"'This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities,' Viktor Danilov-Danilyan - the head of science at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) - said in a 17 January interview with a Russian newspaper.

"Russian scientists said in December that this spill could be more than twice the size of a similar disaster in the strait in 2007, which saw up to 1,600 tonnes of #HeavyOil leak into the sea. #Ukraine's ministry of #ecology has estimated that the clear up from the latest spill could cost the Russian state up to $14bn (£11.4bn).

"#PaulJohnston, a scientist at #GreenpeaceResearchLaboratories, said 'there's always an element of uncertainty around oil spills', but a lack of timely information has heightened this uncertainty further.

"'I'm not entirely optimistic we'll ever know the full extent of the problem,' he added.

"Satellite images reviewed by #BBCVerify on 10 January - the most recent available high-resolution photos - showed a #MassiveOilSlick running through the strait, measuring at least 25km (15 miles) long. A second, smaller slick measuring around 5.7km (3.5 miles) long is also visible."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ngk5vgmpo
#WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalDestruction #OilSpill

Russia Says Oil Spill ‘Critical’ as Crimea Declares Emergency

#Russia warned on Saturday of severe environmental damage from a huge #OilSpill in the #BlackSea caused when two tankers collided in a storm near #Crimea, which declared a state of emergency.
One #tanker sank and another ran aground on December 15 in the #KerchStrait between Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/28/russia-says-oil-spill-critical-as-crimea-declares-emergency-a87476

#Environment
#OilKills

Kerch Strait Oil Spill

Early in the morning of 15 December 2024, two Russian-flagged #Volgoneft river-sea class #oil #tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, were caught in a storm just south of the #KerchStrait. Volgoneft-212, which was reportedly carrying approximately 4,900 tonnes of fuel oil, split in half and sank, resulting in an #OilSpill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kerch_Strait_oil_spill

#Environment
#Sentinel
#Copernicus
#RemoteSensing