Volunteers reported new fuel oil spills on the beaches of the Taman Peninsula.

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Volunteers discovered a huge layer of fuel oil on a beach on the Taman Peninsula. The Krasnodar Krai task force stated that there were no new emissions.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," volunteers and bloggers reported fuel oil emissions after a storm in Anapa and the Temryuk district. Some bags of fuel oil collected in the winter were "washed" under the sand and resurfaced after the storm. Birds covered in fuel oil reappeared on the shore again. The Krasnodar Krai task force reported that wet sand cannot be sifted, and mechanized sand cleaning has been suspended. The task force described the fuel oil emissions as insignificant. Environmentalists believe large-scale coastal cleanup should resume.

Volunteers from the Dolphins task force reported on October 17 that oil spills had once again been detected on MTF-2 beach between Ploskie Kamani and Cape Panagia on the Taman Peninsula. They wrote about this on their Telegram channel, "Dolphins Headquarters. Saving the Sea. Volna Village. News."

"Dolphins volunteers are documenting a huge layer of fuel oil along the shore," they wrote, adding that there's a lot of work to do, but not enough people.

The Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters, in turn, reported on October 17 that no new fuel oil spills were detected in Anapa and the Temryuk District from October 15 to 17, and that daily monitoring of the coastline is underway. As an illustration, the headquarters published a photograph of an empty Kavkaz Beach in Anapa, which only reveals that there is no one on the shore except one person.

The headquarters also published information about a meeting of the legal commission to coordinate emergency response efforts, at which it was reported that divers are "regularly" inspecting the sunken fragments of the tankers. Regarding the coastline, approximately 1,500 kilometers have been cleaned since the beginning of the work, including repeated cleanups. More than 183,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected, but only over 182 tons have been transported "to specialized organizations."

As a reminder, on December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. A crew member of one of the tankers died as a result. In addition, an oil spill occurred, leading to catastrophic environmental consequences, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Fuel Oil Spill in the Kerch Strait".

As a result of the environmental disaster, Rospotrebnadzor declared 141 beaches in Anapa and nine beaches in the Temryuk district unsuitable for recreation. Fuel oil was detected on all beaches in Anapa, on the coast in the Temryuk district, and on the coast of the Sea of Azov in the Slavyansk district of Kuban, according to the Caucasian Knot report "The extent of fuel oil pollution in southern Russia".