Sevastopol Completes Cleanup of 839 Tons of Oil Contamination After Tanker Accident

In the annexed Sevastopol, the main work on the collection and removal of waste after the accident of oil tankers in the Kerch Strait seems to be completed.

According to Crimea.Realii, this was stated by the occupying head of the city Mikhail Razvozhayev. According to him, monitoring of the entire coastline is still ongoing. However, volunteers are no longer involved in the work on the coast.

According to Razvozhayev, 839 tons of contaminated soil have been removed during the entire period of work.

According to Razvozhayev, on March 1, divers of the Russian-established Emergency Situations Ministry in Sevastopol began to inspect the coastline and seabed on Golden and Silver Beaches.

The accident in the Kerch Strait became known on December 15. The shipwreck occurred near Cape Panagia in the Temryuk district of Krasnodar Territory, 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.

Later, environmentalists discovered areas contaminated with fuel oil on the coast near the village of Mykolayivka in the Serhiyivka community of Odesa Oblast. On January 29, utilities in Odesa Oblast 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.

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

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