Russia simulates environmental disaster cleanup after tanker accident in the Black Sea

The Russians are simulating the elimination of the consequences of the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait, when more than 4,000 tons of fuel oil spilled into the sea.

This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation.

Thus, a commission of Russian officials has presented a plan to raise fragments of sunken ships from the seabed – more than three months after the accident. And the work itself will begin only next year.

This is another example of “effective and timely” solutions to eliminate a large-scale environmental disaster in the Black Sea.

While the wreckage of the tankers remains in the sea, there is a risk of further fuel oil leakage and new pollution. But Russian officials see no reason to rush. Instead of real work, the Russian authorities are trying to pretend that the consequences of the accident have already been eliminated, and are massively distributing vouchers for “rehabilitation” in the ecological disaster zone to thousands of children.

The Center also reported that the idea to raise the damaged tankers from the seabed came to Russian President Vladimir Putin only two months after the accident, when the environmental disaster in the Black Sea had already reached impressive proportions.

Recall, on December 15, two Russian tankers were sinking in the Kerch Strait. The first to crash was the Volgoneft-212 tanker, which was carrying 4,000 tons of fuel oil. An hour later, the Volgoneft-239 was hit by a storm.

The cause of the accident was a strong storm. One of the tankers was almost cut in half by the waves.

On the evening of December 15, it became known that the evacuation of the crew of the Volgoneft-239 tanker was suspended due to bad weather.

Over the past six months before the accident, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 delivered fuel oil and export oil fuel from the Rosneft refinery to the port of Kavkaz.

Previously, USM reported that Russia had completed dismantling the tanker that sank in the Kerch Strait.