The governor of the Sevastopol region, the largest city in Crimea and base of the Russian fleet, Mikhail Razvozhaev, declared a state of emergency due to an oil spill that affected this area of the Black Sea.
The spill comes from oil tankers sunk in the Black Sea, the ‘Volgoneft-212’ and the ‘Volgoneft-239’, and authorities have asked the population to report any detection of hydrocarbon remains.
“There is no widespread pollution off the coast of Sevastopol, but there are traces of fuel in several different locations and we are quickly eliminating them,” Razvozhaev said on his Telegram account.
The oil tankers ‘Volgoneft-212’ and ‘Volgoneft-239’ sank on December 15 in a storm that affected the Kerch Strait.
Authorities announced this Friday that the oil spill that has affected southwestern Russia and Crimea since December, following the shipwreck, reached Sevastopol, the largest city on this annexed peninsula and the base of the Russian fleet.
The city of Sevastopol, with a population of over half a million, is the historic base of the Russian Black Sea fleet and an important tourist destination for Russians.
The ships reportedly released 2,400 tons of fuel and the Kerch and Krasnodar regions immediately declared an emergency.
In the last 24 hours, 10 thousand tons of contaminated soil were removed from the beaches of Anapa and Temriuk, and in total, 96 thousand tons were collected.
Source: www.jornaldenegocios.pt
