Oil is leaking again from one of the tankers that sank in the Kerch Strait in December 2024 and wrecked some of Russia’s most prized coastline
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Oil has begun leaking again from the bow section of tanker Volgoneft-239, which sank in the Kerch Strait in December 2024, according to the Russian open-source intelligence project SkyEye, which analyzed satellite imagery from early July 2026.