Oil spill in the port of occupied Mariupol
8.12.2025 - 14:22
An oil spill occurred during the lifting of a sunken dredger in the waters of the seaport of occupied Mariupol.
As a result of violations by the Russian company, a spot containing oil formed in the waters of the port, Russian media reports.
The company lifted the dredger without approval of the documentation and without an agreement with the emergency and rescue service to eliminate possible spills of oil products.
The occupiers estimated that the amount of damage caused to the water body was over 2 million rubles (over $26 thousand).
As a reminder, the occupiers planned to raise the Meotida dredger, which was flooded at the entrance to the Mariupol port, by November 11, 2024. The Russians even “ordered” the shipowner — the Delta-Pilot branch of the USPA State Enterprise — to develop documentation for the removal of the vessel by November 11, 2023, and to lift it within a year.
The occupiers complained that the sunken Ukrainian dredger was making it difficult for them to “build, reconstruct, repair, and operate hydraulic structures, underwater cables, and underwater pipelines.”
Earlier, USM reported that the invaders were preparing to transfer the port of Mariupol to the de facto administration of Rostov.
