A unit for pumping oil products from sunken tankers has arrived in the Krasnodar region

In the Krasnodar region arrived in the installation for pumping oil products from the sunken tankers, preparations are underway to test the equipment on shore. This was reported on December 26 by the operational headquarters of the region.

"On the territory of the Azov-Black Sea Fleet Morspassluzhba brought a special installation, which is designed to pump out oil products from sunken ships. With it arrived experts Morsspassluzhba Baltic branch", - informed the press service in Telegram-channel.

The operative headquarters specified that at the moment four containers are being unloaded, as well as preparations for testing the equipment on shore.

In the current of the bottom: fuel oil continues to pollute the Black Sea coastline

Authorities have introduced a regional emergency regime in the region - will it speed up the liquidation of the consequences of the tanker crash?

Earlier in the day, Kurenkov arrived in Anapa to monitor the progress of liquidation of the fuel oil spill. In the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations also reported that since the beginning of work in the Krasnodar region collected and removed more than 23.5 thousand tons of contaminated soil. More than 4.3 thousand people and 400 units of equipment were involved in the work.

The Governor of the Krasnodar Region Veniamin Kondratiev asked the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for federal assistance to eliminate the oil spill on the coast of the region. A federal state of emergency has been introduced in the Krasnodar Region due to the situation in the Kerch Strait.

Tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15 due to bad weather. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from the vessels. One person died.

On the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a working group has been set up to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the accident with tankers. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the situation with the elimination of the consequences of the fuel spill in the Black Sea is under the attention of the head of state.

On December 25, a regional emergency regime was introduced in Kuban due to the release of oil products.