On December 15, two tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, carrying fuel oil, sank in the Black Sea. Oil products spilled into the sea, and two days later they washed up on the beaches of the Krasnodar Territory. As the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev wrote in his Telegram channel in December, “this morning, while monitoring the coastline, fuel oil stains were discovered. Oil products washed up on the shore over several dozen kilometers from the village of Veselovka in the Temryuk District to the village of Blagoveshchenskaya in Anapa. 267 people are working on the site, 50 units of equipment are involved.” And that was only the beginning. A few days later, there were reports of a second fuel oil spill — we are talking about a section about 4 km long near the village of Veselovka in the Temryuk District and the Bolshoy Utrish Nature Reserve in Anapa. Dolphins and birds died from the fuel oil, the fuel oil sank to the bottom and destroyed flora and fauna. Volunteers began collecting the material washed ashore, and they also washed the dying birds. At the end of December, a federal emergency regime was declared in the region. The governor of Krasnodar Krai asked the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov, who was very late in visiting the environmental disaster zone, to consider the possibility of attracting federal resources to eliminate the consequences of the spill. "More than 30 thousand tons of contaminated soil have been collected so far, but, according to preliminary estimates, the volume may increase to 200 thousand tons. Today, it is important to establish a system for its disposal," the governor said. In January, fuel oil reached the beaches of neighboring Crimea, and on January 4, a regional emergency regime was declared in Sevastopol. "There is no mass pollution of the coastline in Sevastopol, but traces of fuel oil are found in different places, and we are promptly eliminating them," wrote governor Mikhail Razvozhaev. Today it became known that oil stains and birds covered in it appeared off the coast of Georgia. In total, more than 3 thousand tons of oil products got into the sea. Authors of the film: correspondent Vladislav Shkurenko and director Kirill Verkhozin Support our work https://supportnovaya.media Buy merch https://ozon.ru/t/bepddwW and here http://t.me/LLCNewSalesBot/Catalog Read our texts here https://novayagazeta.ru Slowed down YouTube, subscribe to our video channel in Telegram http://t.me/nomediarussia For advertising on the channel, write [email protected] YouTube channel "NO.Media from Russia" - a project of independent journalists who remained in Moscow