In the Anapa area, bags of collected fuel oil are being carried back to the sea.
Residents and volunteers complain about the government's ineffectiveness: volunteers can collect fuel oil, but removal requires equipment that is in short supply.
Fuel oil corrodes even thick plastic; the bags started leaking a few days ago, but a storm hit the night before, the waves grew stronger, and the bags began to be pulled out to sea. "All our volunteer work has been wasted. What have we torn our backs for?" they write in the chats.
Witnesses note that there are numerous uncollected bags along the shoreline. Volunteers are mapping these spots and considering how to further coordinate efforts to expedite the removal process.
Yesterday evening, the Krasnodar Territory operational headquarters сообщилThe work was suspended because "the storm made it dangerous to take people to the water's edge, as equipment was getting stuck." Furthermore, officials said it was impossible to remove the bags any faster than they were currently doing. As of this morning, work had resumed.
Under the post of the governor of Krasnodar Krai too a real stormPeople are complaining that in some places, not only were the bags not removed, but that overnight, equipment covered them with sand and "graded" them. "Why do some people clean them up, while others just move them somewhere else and try to hide them???" "I'm so tired of this lie, at every turn!" subscribers are indignant. Another theory is that the bags are covered with sand to prevent them from being washed away.
Residents of Anapa recorded a petition to Putin demanding that professional rescue teams be mobilized from across the country, as local authorities are unable to cope with the consequences of a disaster of this magnitude.
People write to all authorities, but often receive formal replies. They even try to reach "patriots," like the singer Shaman, but they are blocked.
Residents are upset with the official media for covering up the scale of the disaster: "All the equipment and the costumed EMERCOM people, it's all for RIA Novosti's image... It's not interesting to show the real picture of the world—dead dolphins, dirty birds, kilometers of bags and black sand, thousands of tired residents and volunteers... I'm so angry."