A state of emergency has been declared in the Krasnodar region of Russia after a tanker accident and fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait. This was reported by the Russian media with reference to the governor of the region, Veniamin Kondratiev, UNN reports.
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the governor of the Krasnodar region, said in a statement that he had decided to declare an emergency in the region because oil was still polluting the coast in Anapa and the Temryuk district.
Earlier, he declared a less serious emergency at the municipal level.
According to him, the discharge of oil products onto the shores of Anapa and the Temryukha district "has been protracted and continues unabated." Initially, according to experts, the bulk of the fuel oil was supposed to settle on the bottom of the Black Sea, which would have allowed it to be collected in the water.
"But the weather dictates its own conditions, the air warms up and oil products rise to the top. As a result, they end up on our beaches," the governor said.
Recall
On December 15, two tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, crashed in the Kerch Strait. As a result of the accident, more than three thousand tons of fuel oil were spilled into the water. About 50 kilometers of the Black Sea coast in the Krasnodar region were contaminated.
Environmentalists warn that pollution could reach Ukrainian shores and lead to massive deaths of marine life.
Students from the occupied territory are engaged to clean up fuel oil on the Black Sea coast .