Pollution was recorded on the coasts of occupied Yalta, Kerch, Yevpatoria, and in the Saki, Black Sea, and Leninsky regions of Crimea.
The scale of the environmental disaster caused by the sinking of two oil tankers in the Kerch Strait turned out to be bigger than the authorities initially said. About 5 thousand tons of fuel remains at the bottom of the Black Sea – “it is a kind of jelly-like mass that does not move anywhere.” This was announced by the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, on Sunday, January 12.
Previously, the Russian Ministry of Transport claimed that as a result of the accident, about 2.4 thousand tons of fuel oil from the 9.2 thousand transported by the tankers Volgoneft-239 and Volgoneft-212 went into the sea.
About 155 thousand tons of sand contaminated with fuel oil were removed from the coast of Anapa and the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation alone. Another 43.5 thousand tons of contaminated soil was collected in occupied Crimea. Also in the Crimea, 19.1 thousand m² of water area was cleaned, and in the Kuban – 38.7 thousand m².
On January 10, during an inspection of the stern of the Volgoneft-239 tanker, a new leak with an area of approximately 2.8 thousand m² was discovered. Pollution was recorded on the coasts of occupied Yalta, Kerch, Yevpatoria, and in the Saki, Black Sea, and Leninsky regions of Crimea.
In addition, oil products washed up on the shores of the Sea of Azov near the occupied Berdyansk in the Zaporozhye region, where the length of the contaminated area is 14.5 km.
We remind you that after the crash, fuel oil from tankers washed up on the coast of Krasnodar Territory – the beaches turned black from fuel oil.
Let’s add that the third and fourth tankers of the Volgoneft series, full of fuel oil, sent a distress signal to the Black Sea. There was a cargo leak on the ship.
Damage from tanker accidents in the Kerch Strait will reach $14 billion
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