{"id":25434,"date":"2025-01-08T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=25434"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:26:34","slug":"occupiers-lie-about-ukraines-intention-to-cause-environmental-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/occupiers-lie-about-ukraines-intention-to-cause-environmental-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupiers lie about Ukraine&#8217;s intention to cause \u201cenvironmental disaster\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yevhen Balytsky, a representative of the occupation administration in the Zaporizhzhia region, has accused the Ukrainian Defense Forces of attempting to \u201ccause an environmental disaster in the Sea of Azov.\u201d According to Balytsky, the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly carried out a \u201ctargeted missile attack on oil storage tanks\u201d in the port of Berdyansk.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f However, Balytsky provided no evidence to support his claim that the oil tanks were the intended target. Notably, the strike reportedly caused no casualties or significant damage, and according to the occupiers, \u201cthe attack did not affect the port\u2019s operations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These baseless accusations are a diversion tactic by Russia to shift attention away from the real environmental disaster happening along the coast of occupied Crimea, where fuel oil pollution from sunken Russian tankers is wreaking havoc. The responsibility for this disaster, along with other environmental damage in Ukraine, rests entirely with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yevhen Balytsky, a representative of the occupation administration in the Zaporizhzhia region, has accused the Ukrainian Defense Forces of attempting to \u201ccause an environmental disaster in the Sea of Azov.\u201d According to Balytsky, the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly carried out a \u201ctargeted missile attack on oil storage tanks\u201d in the port of Berdyansk. \u25ab\ufe0f However,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}