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Russia does not benefit by the war dragging on, because every shell that gets used is one less shell Russia has in their stockpiles. Every tank that gets made is materials not going elsewhere in Russia's economy.
Russia makes military hardware at a rate far exceeding NATO. It's starting to in some way resemble the Union vs the Confederacy, where the side that had no foundries or shipyards found itself in a lot of trouble after a couple years. Russia's also doing a fine job of degrading U.S. legitimacy and ensuring the rest of the world doesn't see them as worth getting upset about. The last thing Russia needs is for there to be some kind of international consensus that it would be 100% justified for the US to get directly involved, because I don't think for a minute Putin would go for the big, red button if F-35s started taking out Russian AA.
That is comparing a spill to one in a much smaller ocean. Will all the oil dilute or break down as much in a smaller body of water? Would the local coastlines handle such contamination as well, as instead of being vacation and retirement properties the coast will be covered by people living on the sea, which, again, is much smaller and it's wildlife may be more isolated and sensitive to contamination
The Black Sea is approximately 48 billion times the size of a Russian oil tanker. In concrete terms, the size of an oil tanker relative to the Black Sea is the same as two teaspoons relative to the tanker itself.