A video message to all concerned on June 1st recorded About a hundred Anapa residents. According to them, the approaching heat is exacerbating the environmental consequences of the December tanker disaster, threatening a larger-scale environmental disaster.

— More than four thousand tons of carcinogenic poison in rusty and partially depressurized containers... have been rotting on the bottom of seawater that is aggressive to metal for six months now <> If rusty tanks containing four thousand tons of carcinogens collapse in the heat, the consequences will be beyond our ability to repair, nor will they be able to be repaired by us or our children.

According to satellite data, fuel oil emissions on the Black Sea coast are continuing, residents note. They are outraged that over the past six months, the authorities have failed to complete the pumping out of the fuel oil and lift the tankers. plan only in 2026 year.

In the current situation, we consider the announced deadlines to be highly unacceptable. Moreover, it seems that the authorized agencies are more interested in the process of using the funds allocated by the state for emergency response than in the response itself., - noted the residents of Anapa.

Tankers Volgoneft-239 and Volgoneft-212 suffered damage crash in the Kerch Strait on December 15. Both vessels were carrying a total of almost ten thousand tons of fuel oil. At sea, it poured out at least four thousand tons - they polluted tens of kilometers of the Black Sea coast.

The consequences of the disaster are still being dealt with: to plans According to authorities, Anapa's beaches will only be cleared of waste by the summer of 2026.