A new fuel oil discharge was detected from the stern of the Volgoneft-239 tanker in Kuban

A new leakage of oil products after the wreck in the Black Sea was discovered near the village of Taman in Kuban from the stern of the tanker "Volgoneft-239". This was reported on January 10 in the press service of the Operational Headquarters in the Krasnodar region.

It is indicated that this part of the vessel was thrown aground in the Temryuksky area.

"Monitoring groups found that the vessel began to come out of the oil products. At the moment it is not known what the scale of the damage is," they wrote in the Telegram channel.

At the moment, employees of the Morspassluzhba are taking measures to localize the consequences.

It also became known that oil product pollution was found along almost 15 km of coastline in Crimea, including the island of Tuzla. This is reported by the press service of the regional head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

In addition to the island of Tuzla, the list included Kerch, Evpatoria, Saksky and Leninsky districts. It is noted that the total length of the polluted coastal strip amounted to 14.38 km.

The agency added that the monitoring of territories is carried out by 10 marine and two aircraft. The total number of specialists who are working to eliminate the consequences of the incident is 500. Also 100 units of various equipment are involved.

The sea is worried: Putin criticized the work of the authorities in the zone of ecological disaster

The President instructed to create a headquarters to eliminate the consequences of fuel oil spills

The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea one of the most serious environmental challenges in recent years during a meeting with members of the Russian government.

January 2, the press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation said that 2.4 thousand tons of oil products had fallen into the Black Sea after the tanker crash.

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