In annexed Sevastopol, a state of emergency of regional importance has been declared, said the head of occupation of the city Mikhail Razvozhayev.

“In general: I personally lead the operational headquarters on the situation, today in Sevastopol the emergency mode of regional importance was announced,” Razvozhayev is quoted as saying”Crimea.Realities“.

He claims that there is no mass pollution of the coastline in Sevastopol, but traces of fuel oil are detected in different places.

“On the shore of the beach “Star Bank” fuel oil was discovered on an area of approximately 100 square meters. Rescuers of PSP “North” and local residents cleared the area. Spots of fuel oil were also found on the shore of the Blue Bay beach. In Orlovka, small spots of oil products and fuel oil were found in the water on the shore with a length of about 760 meters along the coastline of the entire beach “Nakhimovets”, - Razvozhayev emphasized.

The day before, Razvozhayev said that the discovered fuel stain at the entrance to Balaklava Bay was removed by the local rescue service.

As reported, two Volgoneft tankers with fuel oil crashed in the Kerch Strait on Sunday, December 15, - according to the main version, due to a storm.

As a result of the tanker accident, there was a spill of oil products. According to Russian media, Volgoneft-212 transported 4,300 tons of fuel oil. Shot and Baza claim that about the same amount of oil products were on board the Volgonefty-239.

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