Krasnodar Court Fines Kama Shipping ₴30K for Volgoneft-212 Crash

In Krasnodar, a court found Kama Shipping guilty of violating maritime classification documents, which could have caused the crash of the Volgoneft-212 tanker in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024.

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

The court decided to fine the company 30 thousand rubles (about $215). At the same time, the Russian Prosecutor's Office pointed out that the vessel was operated in violation of the navigation terms. It was used in the Azov and Black Seas, although the navigation season for this type of vessel ended in November.

According to the investigation, since November 30, the tanker did not have valid documents from the Russian classification society. Nevertheless, it continued its voyages, and on December 15, it sank.

Recently, it became known that the annexed Crimea does not disclose information about the dead waterfowl that were sent for rehabilitation to the Taigan lion park after the environmental disaster in the Kerch Strait.

Earlier, Tatiana Beley , director of the occupation's Delphi Scientific and Ecological Center for Dolphin Rescue, said that the number of dead dolphins as a result of the Volgoneft tanker accident and fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait had reached 84.

Before that, Odesa ecologists discovered that jellyfish poisoned by fuel oil were dying en masse on the coast of Odesa region. According to Ivan Rusev, an employee ofthe Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park, there were 2-3 jellyfish per meter on the sand on a two-kilometer stretch of coastline, with a total of about 5,000 individuals. There were even more of them in shallow water areas, but it was not possible to count their number. The scientist suggested that the jellyfish could have consumed nanofractions of oil products along with plankton, which could have serious environmental consequences.

Meanwhile, on the coast near the village of Mykolayivka, Serhiyivka community, Odesa region, environmentalists also discovered new areas contaminated with fuel oil. On January 29, utilities in Odesa region began work to clean up the coast from oil pollution. Earlier, employees of the Tuzly Estuaries National Park found fuel oil on the park's coast, which they collected and handed over to Vladyslav Balynskyi's private laboratory. After that, the Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies at the Odesa Regional State Administration held an extraordinary meeting.

The accident in the Kerch Strait became known on December 15. The shipwreck occurred near Cape Panagia in the Temryuk district of Krasnodar Krai, in the southwest of the Taman Peninsula, 12 kilometers from the village of Taman. It is the eastern entrance to the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea. According to official data, both tankers could have been carrying about 8,000 tons of oil products.

Андрій Колісніченко