A Year Ago, Two Tankers with Fuel Oil Sank in the Kerch Strait. This Is One of the Biggest Environmental Disasters in Russian History See How Volunteers and Rescuers Have Been Trying to Clean the Beaches All This Time

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On December 15, 2024, one of the biggest environmental disasters in Russian history occurred in the Kerch Strait: two Russian tankers crashed due to bad weather. According to various estimates, from 2,400 to 4,000 tons of fuel poured into the sea. A few days later, fuel oil reached the Black Sea coast of Krasnodar Krai near Anapa. Rescuers, local residents and more than 60,000 volunteers from other regions of Russia spent months cleaning beaches…