The scale of the environmental disaster along Russia's Krasnodar coast is becoming clear as volunteers say no major state efforts are being made to help in the cleanup. On December 15, two oil tankers foundered in the Kerch Strait, the body of water between Russia and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. Some 4,000 tons of fuel oil poured into the sea and has subsequently washed ashore. Volunteers are now cleaning up the landscape, and wildlife caught up in the spill -- work they say is being done without state support.

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Cleanup continues in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers. Russia’s state Tass

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Cleanup continues in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers. Russia’s state Tass news agency says that by Sunday afternoon, more than 12,000 tons of contaminated soil had been removed along 34 kilometers (21 miles) of shoreline. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said oil continued to wash up along the Crimean Peninsula, which Rus…

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The two ships were carrying some 9,200 metric tonnes (62,000 barrels) of oil products in total.

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About 20 tons of fuel oil were collected on the Crimean coast, petroleum products have already been prepared for transportation to a special site for storage and disposal, said... RIA Novosti, 22.12.2024

Порядка 20 тонн мазута собрали на крымском побережье, нефтепродукты уже подготовили к перевозке на специальную площадку для хранения и утилизации, сообщил... РИА Новости, 22.12.2024

На крымском побережье собрали около 20 тонн мазута

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Cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea on Sunday, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers.

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Cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea on Sunday, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers. More than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, raced to rescue wildlife and clean up shorelines blighted by mazut, a heavy, low-quality oil product, according to Russian news reports. By Sunday afternoon, more than 12,000 tons of contaminated soil had been remove…

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