The pro-Russian governor of Sevastopol declares an Emergency due to a fuel spill

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MADRID Jan. 4 () –

The pro-Russian governor of the Ukrainian region of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, has declared a state of emergency due to a fuel spill affecting this area of ​​the Black Sea.

The spill comes from sunken oil tankers in the Black Sea, the ‘Volgoneft-212’ and the ‘Volgoneft-239’. The authorities have urged the population to report any detection of hydrocarbon remains.

“There is no widespread pollution on the coast of Sevastopol, but there are traces of fuel in several different places and we are quickly eliminating them,” Razvozhaev said on his Telegram account. Razvozhaev himself visited one of the affected beaches this Saturday.

The oil tankers ‘Volgoneft-212’ and ‘Volgoneft-239’ sank on December 15 in the middle of a storm that affected the Kerch Strait. The ships reportedly released 2,400 tons of fuel and the Kerch and Krasnodar regions immediately declared an emergency.

In the last 24 hours, 10,000 tons of contaminated soil have been removed from the beaches of Anapa and Temriuk. In total 96,000 tons have been collected.