Fuel oil stains on the Kerch coast were locally eliminated

Fuel oil stains, which appeared in connection with the crash of two oil tankers in the Black Sea, were locally eliminated on the coast of the city district of Kerch. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation on December 21.

"On the coast of the urban district of Kerch were found oil stains of insignificant size, were locally liquidated," - stated in the message of the Department in Telegram-channel.

It is specified that on this site in total more than 700 kg of oil products were collected. The work is also being carried out near the cape Zmeiny. A boat with specialists on board was sent to the Kerch Strait to eliminate oil stains.

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Earlier in the day it was reported that in Kerch after the emergency with tankers in the Black Sea introduced emergency mode of municipal character. Fuel oil after the accident with oil tankers reached the shores of the Kerch Peninsula - Cape Snake and fortress Yeni-Kale.

At the same time, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported that 54 km of the Black Sea coastline in the Krasnodar region should be cleaned from the pollution with fuel oil after the accident with oil tankers. More than 6 thousand people and over 300 units of equipment are involved in the work.

The tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15 due to bad weather. As a result of the incident there was a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels. It was specified that one person died.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, created a working group to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the accident with tankers in the Kerch Strait.