Oil has resumed leaking from the sunken Volgoneft tanker in the Kerch Strait.

Satellite imagery has recorded a renewed leak of oil products from the sunken bow of the Volgoneft-239 tanker in the Kerch Strait. сообщил independent OSINT monitoring project Sky Eye.

The oil slick is visible in satellite images from July 1 and 6.

Causes of the environmental problem and the situation on the beaches

According to project experts, the oil spill may be related to rising water temperatures in the Black Sea and the associated heating of fuel oil, as well as work to pump oil products from tankers.

Meanwhile, there are already 75 Anapa beaches received permission for opening, another 10 are undergoing inspection. But vacationers сообщаютThat there's still fuel oil on the beaches. On fuel oil stains on the body after swimming in the sea. complain and residents of Novorossiysk.

Expert opinion on the resorts' readiness

"Anapa is currently not ready to welcome vacationers or open its beaches. Moreover, we still have unaccounted palm oil and paraffin oil spills along parts of the Azov coast and the Black Sea. Therefore, it's too early to say that Anapa is ready as a resort for both children and adults. There's still plenty of fuel oil, and we need to work on that," считает Kuban ecologist Evgeny Vitishko.