More than 10 km of coastline in the Krasnodar Territory was cleaned up after the tanker accident

More than 10 km of the coast was cleared of oil products in the Krasnodar region after the tanker crash. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region on December 18.

"About 100 tons of oil products have been collected in the Krasnodar region. In total, more than 10 km of coastline has been cleaned," - stated in the message of the press service in Telegram-channel.

It is specified that the work on cleaning continues at night. More than 5 thousand people are working on the site.

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Earlier in the day it was reported that rescuers and volunteers collected about 80 tons of oil products on the Black Sea coast after the emergency with tankers in the Kerch Strait.

At the same time it was reported that the central beach in the village of Veselovka, Temryuksky district, Krasnodar region, was cleaned of fuel oil after the collision of tankers and fuel spill in the Kerch Strait.

Before that, on December 15, tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239suffered a disaster in the Kerch Strait due to bad weather. As a result, there was a spill of oil products.

The first vessel evacuated 13 people: one of them died, 11 were injured. All 14 crew members were evacuated from the tanker Volgoneft-239 on Monday. Two criminal cases were opened over the incident, one of which was reclassified as more serious because of the death of a sailor.

Governor of the Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratiev said that after the oil spill in four settlements of the Kuban introduced a state of high alert. Later, on December 17, he specified that after the accident with two tankers fuel oil was carried ashore for dozens of kilometers, two municipalities of the region introduced a state of emergency. Specialists have determined the algorithm of cleaning works.

Andrei Potakhov, acting head of the Emergency Situations Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Krasnodar Krai, said on the same day that the fuel oil spilled in pockets and the cleanup of contaminated areas is complicated by the storm that brings oil products from the sea - in some areas, it is likely that the cleanup will have to be done again.