Repeated emissions of fuel oil were recorded in Anapa

Repeated emissions of fuel oil were recorded at 12 sites of beaches in Anapa. This was reported on February 4 by the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region.

It is specified that oil products were found on the territory of Uspensky, Belorechensky, Mostovsky, Labinsky, Timashevsky, Pavlovsky, Apsheronsky, Abinsky, Starominsky, Slavyansky, Tikhoretsky districts and Krasnodar.

"New emissions at each of the sites are removed in the first place," - indicated in the Telegram-channel of the operashtab.

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Earlier, on January 31, the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region reported the detection of minor repeated emissions of fuel oil on the coast of Anapa. It was specified that oil products were recorded in the territories of Abinsky, Vyselkovsky, Pavlovsky, Yeisky, Starominsky, Krymsky districts and Novorossiysk. Later, on February 2, it became known that during the day divers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry lifted 1350 kg of fuel oil from the bottom at the berth in Anapa.

Tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15 due to bad weather. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. As a result of the incident there was a spill of oil products. Two criminal cases were opened over the incident.

Two days later, by the morning of December 17, oil products reached the shores of Anapa and Temryuksky district, and then Crimea. On December 26, a federal emergency was declared. On January 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea one of the most serious environmental challenges for the country in recent years.