{"id":23338,"date":"2026-10-06T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/russia-warns-environmental-impact-ukraine-black-sea-ships\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:45:17","slug":"russia-warns-environmental-impact-ukraine-black-sea-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/russia-warns-environmental-impact-ukraine-black-sea-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Warns of Environmental Impact from Ukrainian Attacks on Black Sea Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry has warned of the environmental consequences of Ukrainian attacks on ships in the Black Sea, saying the strikes could threaten the region&#8217;s ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Kononchenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry&#8217;s special representative for climate issues, told RIA Novosti that Western countries were not reacting to these consequences because, in his view, \u201canything is acceptable\u201d in the fight against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the silence of Western countries was \u201cunderstandable\u201d from Moscow&#8217;s perspective and claimed that, in efforts to inflict a \u201cstrategic defeat\u201d on Russia, no attention is being paid to the ecosystems of the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as the war in Ukraine has intensified in recent months, with the two sides mutually targeting ships linked to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia warns Ukrainian attacks on Black Sea ships could threaten the region&#8217;s ecosystems amid intensifying war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}