The first two days of January, the dynamics of the consequences of the ecological disaster in the Kerch Strait area, started on December 15, when the Russian tankers “Volgoneft-212” and “Volgoneft-239” were wrecked, were quite predictable.
Both the aggressor’s federal authorities, and the regional powers in Krasnodar Krai, also as the Kerch gauleiter, continued to “radiate optimism”, cheerfully reporting on the testing of the fuel oil pumping unit in Novorossiysk, on the inspection of the sunken tankers by divers, and on the next cleaned beaches.
However, the reality “for some reason” turned out to be somewhat different, and we are not even talking about the next fuel oil stains in Anapa and Kerch, with the already full “storage sites”, or about the contaminated birds found along the entire coast.
As the aggressor’s Ministry of Transport admitted two weeks later, “the accident in the Kerch Strait is the first in the world where “heavy” fuel oil of the M100 brand got into the water.”
This type of fuel freezes at temperatures below 25 degrees Celsius, and when in sea water, it does not float to the surface, but covers the bottom or creates accumulations in the water column.
This feature of pollution relative to the water mass was previously established by the Ukrainian ecologists described by us, and without the “revelations” of the aggressor’s Ministry of Transport, but the feature of the “melting point” of the cargo of the ill-fated tankers means only one thing: over the past two weeks, all the fuel oil that has not come out has thickened as much as possible and can no longer be pumped out.
And attempts to raise to the surface the remains of the decrepit tankers with supposedly not yet burst tanks are guaranteed to end in tears. That is why the aggressor-controlled environmentalists, like Georgy Kavanosyan, now admit that fuel oil will be emitted by storms, “for quite a long time” and “finally for up to ten years, until bacteria cope with this pollution.”
Thus, the aggressor cannot stop the development of the catastrophe at the moment, fuel oil emissions near the Kerch Strait will continue, and the “cosmetics” from the occupiers in the form of cleaning beaches and “disposal” of birds does not reduce the risks for the Crimean marine ecosystems.
