Russian emergency workers scrambled on Sunday to rescue the crew members of two oil tankers that suffered accidents as severe weather hit the Kerch Strait. Federal officials are now hurrying to contain the environmental fallout of an oil spill that Greenpeace warns could become “one of the largest environmental disasters in the Black Sea.”
Nobody else has tankers in the region, nobody else sails through the strait.
However, environmentally for the wider region, this is probably worse than the Kakhovka dam destruction.