Point emissions of fuel oil were detected on the coasts of Kuban, Crimea and Sevastopol

Point emissions of fuel oil were detected at 18 sites on the coast of Kuban, Crimea and Sevastopol. This was reported by the Russian Emergencies Ministry on February 5.

Currently, work is underway to clean the coastline from small fractions of petroleum products, including the constant collection and sifting of contaminated soil directly on the coast. The agency emphasized that since the beginning of operations, specialists have already cleaned more than 352.5 km of coastline, including repeated activities.

"The monitoring involves aviation, drones, marine vessels, boats," - stated in the message of the agency.

Thus, in the Krasnodar region was surveyed 265 km of coastline, from where 178 thousand tons of polluted sand and soil were collected, in Crimea - 697 tons of oil products, and in Sevastopol - more than 644.5 tons

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Earlier, on February 4, repeated emissions of fuel oil were recorded at 12 sites of beaches in Anapa. Petroleum products were found on the territory of Uspensky, Belorechensky, Mostovsky, Labinsky, Timashevsky, Pavlovsky, Apsheronsky, Abinsky, Starominsky, Slavyansky, Tikhoretsky districts and Krasnodar.

The tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15 due to bad weather. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. As a result of the incident there was a spill of oil products. Two criminal cases were initiated over the incident.

Two days later, by the morning of December 17, oil products reached the shores of Anapa and Temryuksky district, and then Crimea. On December 26, a federal emergency regime was declared. On January 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea one of the most serious environmental challenges for the country in recent years.