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| More than 32,000 volunteers help to eliminate the consequences of the fuel oil spill | |
| 2025-01-16 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] More than 32.5 thousand volunteers, activists of youth associations and concerned citizens from 20 regions of the country are helping specialized services in eliminating the consequences of the oil spill in the Black Sea, the press services of Rosmolodezh, the Dobro.rf and MyVmeste movements reported on Wednesday, January 15.
“The work to eliminate the consequences of the oil spill does not stop, and even during the holidays, caring people continued to work - they collected and disposed of more than 15 thousand bags of sand, hundreds of people helped birds and animals, preserving the environment,” said State Secretary - Deputy Head of Rosmolodezh Denis Ashirov. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, over the course of a month, specialists and volunteers inspected about 896 km of coastline in the affected regions. More than 164 thousand tons of contaminated sand and soil were collected. "Over the course of a month, 32,694 volunteers took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the oil spill in the Black Sea. Russians have once again demonstrated their spirit and unity. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already noted this twice, thanking the volunteers for their help in liquidating the emergency," said Artem Metelev, head of the State Duma Committee on Youth Policy and head of the Dobro.rf ecosystem. The volunteers have been provided with the necessary conditions for their work, and their assistance will be in demand for several more months, he added. To catch and rescue injured birds, there are integrated centers where the birds receive assistance around the clock, the authors noted. The birds are then sent for rehabilitation. Volunteers have washed over 6,000 birds in a month. Entrepreneurs and volunteers are considering the possibility of building an additional temporary center for birds in Anapa. The business community also joined in the assistance — in particular, Yandex sent 15 million rubles to help volunteers in Anapa, and using special promo codes, volunteers can order food delivery for free, call a taxi, and book accommodation. In addition, Rosseti and T-Bank sent volunteers protective equipment, ATVs, and trailers for removing contaminated sand, the authors noted. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 15, 2024, the tankers Volgoneft 239 and Volgoneft 212 sank during a storm in the Kerch Strait. An oil spill occurred. On the instructions of the president, a federal task force was formed to eliminate the consequences of the accident. Emergencies Ministry employees and volunteers are working to clean up the shores in Crimea and Krasnodar Krai. The bulk of the fuel oil has been collected, but new emissions of petroleum products are periodically observed on the coast. The pumping of fuel oil from the Volgoneft 239 tanker should be completed by the end of January. Putin previously expressed gratitude to the volunteers for their assistance. More from regnum.ru Volunteers have found 34 dead dolphins after an accident in the Black Sea In total, 34 dead dolphins were found on the Black Sea coast of Crimea and Sevastopol after a fuel oil spill due to an emergency with tankers. This was reported by the Crimean dolphin rescue center "Bespeshnoye More". "Their number has increased to 34 individuals. One adult female Azovka had isolated traces of fuel oil on her skin. Most of the dead were Azovkas," the rescue center explained. Over the past three days, 15 dead cetaceans have been reported. One individual, according to experts, was again found to have a penetrating wound (probably a knife wound) to the chest cavity. "Also, alarming information was received about the stranding of dead anchovy off the coast of Sevastopol. This raises even greater concerns about the long-term consequences of the accident for the health of animals and about a possible repeat of the situation in 2022, when live dolphins were washed up on the coast as a result of an epizootic," the rescue center added. Of all the cetaceans registered since the tanker accident, 16 dolphins were found in Crimea, 18 in the Sevastopol region. | |
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