The cargo of fuel oil that spilled into the Black Sea was intended for a shadow fleet tanker

The fuel oil that spilled into the Black Sea as a result of the accident of a Russian tanker was intended for a ship of the so-called shadow fleet.

The cargo of fuel oil carried by the tanker “Volgoneft-212”, which suffered an accident in the Black Sea, was intended for loading onto the vessel “Firn”, DW reports.

Such conclusions were made by the working group on assessing the impact of the war on the environment Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group (UWEC).

Previously, the tanker “Firn” is part of the Russian “shadow fleet”.

According to the conclusions of environmentalists, the ship “Volgoneft-109”, which sent a distress signal on December 17, but managed to be saved from a storm at anchor in the port of Kavkaz, was also heading towards the tanker. “Volgoneft-212” was in the transshipment area of ​​the same port on the day of the accident.

Two months before the accident, the Firn tanker was used in exercises by the STS Trans company on the transshipment of oil products from small tankers to a storage tanker. According to a UWEC employee, the exercises were held in the same place where the “Volgoneft-212” crashed on December 15.

Recall that on December 15, two Russian tankers were sinking in the Kerch Strait. The first tanker to crash was the “Volgoneft-212”, which was carrying 4 tons of oil. An hour later, a storm hit the “Volgoneft-239”.

The cause of the accident was a strong storm. One of the tankers was almost cut in half by the waves. As a result of the accidents, 4,300 tons of fuel oil and other oil products could have spilled into the sea.

USM also reported that the owner of the Russian tanker that sank in the Black Sea is being declared bankrupt.