Volunteers reported on the collection of fuel oil on the beaches of Anapa.

Volunteers sifting sand on the beach in Vityazevo collected 300 kilograms of fuel oil. They also reported cleaning up visible fuel oil stains on the Bugayskaya Spit.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," eight pebble beaches in Anapa, from the village of Bolshoy Utrish to "Vysoky Bereg," have been excluded from the emergency zone due to the fuel oil spill. Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) will decide whether to reopen them. Previously, the beach lessee in the village of Vityazevo began adding a new layer of sand from quarries in a test area. This restoration experience may subsequently be extended to other beaches in the emergency zone. Ecologist Yevgeny Vitishko believes that such actions simply conceal the problem, but do not solve it. If samples of the new sand at Miracleon Beach are acceptable, Anapa authorities intend to replenish all the city's beaches within three months.

A group of volunteers sifting sand on Parusa Beach (in Vityazevo) collected several bags of fuel oil in one day, the "Volunteers of the SSL" headquarters reported. "We collected our 300 kg of fuel oil, and in total, over the course of all the days of work in this area, we collected about 2,600 kg of fuel oil hidden in the depths," according to a post on the headquarters' Telegram channel.

Volunteers also carried out work on the Bugayskaya Spit, "cleaning a kilometer of the Bugayskaya Spit shore" up to the fish farm. "There were two tasks: storm debris and manual collection of fuel oil emissions from February 20th of this year. Visible stains have been removed from this area, but we will continue to monitor them," they promised in another message.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that an administrative citation for using an ATV in a specially protected natural area was filed against a volunteer who had come to clean up fuel oil spills on the Bugayskaya Spit.

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".

Materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spill have been collected by the Caucasian Knot on the page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".