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The Oil Spill in Tuapse and the Lessons Russia Didn't Learn

Hundreds of tons of oil leaked after repeated drone strikes, and Russian officials delayed safety warnings and evacuations for nearly two weeks.

While the human toll of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine remains its most devastating consequence, another aspect of Russia’s onslaught is often overlooked: Moscow’s war on ecology. Responding to Russia's growing air attacks against Ukraine, over the past 10 days, Ukrainian forces carried out a multitude of drone strikes targeting an oil refinery in Russia's port city of Tuapse. Tuapse, on the Black Sea, has served as a primary point for Rus…

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Russian volunteers talk about the catastrophic pollution after Ukraine's drone attack on the oil city of Tuapse on the Black Sea. The Russian authorities are not very visible in the cleanup.

·Copenhagen, Denmark
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Since mid-April, Ukraine has launched several strikes against Tuapse, the main targets being a local oil refinery and a marine terminal, which form a single complex from the NPP, an environmental disaster in Tuapsa due to the fires at oil installations and the spill of petroleum products in the Tuapese River and the Black Sea, the last fire caused by the 1 May attack by Ukraine ' s drones was put out the next day, but the city continues to …

·Riga, Latvia
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Ukraine has attacked oil facilities across Russia. Aleksandr Drozdenko, governor of Leningrad, says the area is a new “front region” in the war. At the same time, the Russian economy is in crisis – and the people are increasingly dissatisfied.

·Stockholm, Sweden
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A tense situation for Russia's economy: Ukraine is currently continuing to bomb oil refineries in Tuapse and Ust-Luga. Putin's consequences are devastating.

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merkur.de broke the news on Saturday, May 2, 2026.
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