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Oil Spill From Russia\u2019s Shadow Fleet Reaches Crimean Shores Causing Ecological Disaster
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Russian Authorities stated that an oil leak from the 2 damaged tankers had reached the Crimean Peninsula which Russia had annexed from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 were loaded with 9200 tonnes of heavy fuel oil when they were caught in a storm in December, causing them to spill their cargo into the sea.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin called it an ecological disaster. He added that several volunteers had joined the massive cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n

More than 10,000 people are engaged in rescuing wildlife from the shores and removing tonnes of sand saturated with mazut, which is a heavy oil-based fuel, per Russian media reports.<\/p>\n

Around 73,000 tonnes of contaminated sand has been removed from the beaches, of the 200,000 tonnes affected.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has called it the biggest spill in the region and accused Russia of using old ships no longer suitable for plying in harsh winters.<\/p>\n

Kyiv said that due to Western sanctions against Russian companies and ships, Moscow is using a shadow fleet comprised of ageing ships to move its goods across the globe.<\/p>\n

Over a thousand tankers of the Shadow Fleet are outdated and have fictitious documents and insurance which are used to hide the identity of the owners.<\/p>\n

References: DW, Times of India<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oil Spill From Russia\u2019s Shadow Fleet Reaches Crimean Shores Causing Ecological Disaster Image for representation purposes only. Russian Authorities stated that an oil leak from the 2 damaged tankers had reached the Crimean Peninsula which Russia had annexed from Ukraine. The tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 were loaded with 9200 tonnes of heavy fuel oil when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,196],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-insight","category-shipping-news","tag-marine-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}