New foci of fuel oil contamination continue to be recorded in the occupied Crimea

“On January 11, 13 new foci of fuel oil contamination were discovered in the occupied Crimea, the head of the Russian-controlled Crimean government, Yuriy Gotsanyuk, announced. “At the moment, 13 sources of pollution have been detected in five municipal entities – Kerch, Yevpatoria, Leninskyi, Sakskyi and Black Sea districts,” he wrote in a telegram. In turn, the head of Kerch, controlled by the Russian Federation, Oleg Katorgin, said that as of January 11, the release of oil-containing stains “was recorded and eliminated on the city’s embankment, in the area of ​​the Yeni-Kale fortress, as well as on the Cherepashka, Smorzhevsky, Molodizhny, and City beaches.” The head of Russian-controlled Crimea, Serhiy Aksyonov, said that the situation with fuel oil emissions in Crimea, according to forecasts, could worsen. There is a high risk that the scale of pollution will increase to a level comparable to that recorded on the coast of the Krasnodar region of Russia. Two Volgoneft fuel oil tankers crashed in the Kerch Strait on Sunday, December 15, 2024 – according to the main version, due to a storm. Oil products were spilled as a result of the tanker accident. According to Russian mass media, Volgoneft-212 was transporting 4,300 tons of fuel oil. Shot and Baza claim that approximately the same amount of petroleum products was on board Volgonefta-239. Later, the Russian Maritime Rescue Service said that as a result of the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2.4 thousand tons of oil products leaked into the Black Sea. ”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org