Crimea expands emergency zone amid oil spill in the Black Sea

Crimea has extended the borders of the emergency regime zone, which was introduced in connection with the spillage of oil products after the crash of the tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239. This is evidenced by the changes made on January 30 in the decree of the head of the Republic Sergey Aksenov.

"The boundaries of the zone of technogenic emergency of regional character: the urban district of Kerch, Feodosia, Sudak, Saki, Evpatoria, Leninsky district, Saksky, Chernomorsky districts of the Republic of Crimea", - stated in the message on the website of the Government of Crimea.

It is noted that the number of regions included in the emergency zone increased from two to eight.

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Earlier, January 27, it was reported on the full completion of cleaning of tankers and stern compartments from fuel oil. Specialists began to develop documentation for the disposal of this part of the ship, which sits aground at Cape Panagia in the Temryuksky district of the Krasnodar Territory. Before that, on January 23, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Alexander Kozlov said that the Russian government will transfer 1.5 billion rubles to reimburse the costs incurred in the process of eliminating the consequences of the wreck of the two ships.

Tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024 due to bad weather. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a working group was set up to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.