Tons of fuel oil leaked from the wrecked Russian tankers covered the coast of the Krasnodar Territory from the village of Veselovka in the Temryuk district to the Anapa city.
Emergency workers and volunteers, about 1,000 people in total, began to clear the coastal zone. The collection of fuel oil from the beaches is done manually using shovels and bags.
Rosprirodnadzor specialists take soil and water analyses to calculate the damage. At the moment, experts believe that about 3,000 tons of fuel oil got into the sea.
However, thousands more tons of petroleum products remain on the sunken tankers. The risks of fuel oil leaking out of them are being investigated by divers, according to nia.eco.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
