As they write in Crimean social networks, on the morning of January 3, fuel oil from the December tanker wreck was found on the coast of Cape Opuk. Fuel oil was also found on the beaches of the villages of Zavetne (Yanysh-Takil) and Yakovenkove (Kyz-Aul), located on the southeastern edge of the Kerch Peninsula. Crimeans write that the day before, there were “a lot of dead birds” along the entire coast from Zavetne to Opuk.
It is indicated that after a storm a couple of days ago, the birds that no one cleaned up were “scattered” on the coast near Zavetne and Yakovenkovo, and that “it is unrealistic to walk there now at the edge, everything is covered in plaques of fuel oil, which no one has cleaned up yet,” and live birds are mixed with dead ones.
The occupiers’ “authorities” and “media” were silent about the pollution of this section of the coast, despite the fact that on January 2, the “head of the Leninsky district” Igor Krutkov and his retinue were in Zavetne, who “walked around and left to solve the problem.”
They also write on social networks that on the pebble coast of the Southern coast of Crimea, the process of pollution with fuel oil is simply barely noticeable, since the oil product immediately seeps under the pebbles and stones and concentrates there; its presence can only be visually understood by contaminated birds and algae.
In addition, on the morning of January 3, individual clots of fuel oil were found in the sea at the entrance to the Balaklava Bay of Sevastopol. After the publication of this information by us and “Ukrinform”, by lunchtime on January 3, the aggressor “suddenly” acknowledged the pollution in Yakovenkove, “on 3 thousand meters of the coastline”, and later it stated the presence of fuel oil both in Zavetne and on the entire coast of the Kerch Peninsula to Opuk.
Similarly, Sevastopol gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhaev “retroactively” acknowledged the fuel oil slick at the entrance to Balaklava Bay and “isolated cases of birds in fuel oil in the area of Uchkuyevka, Laspi and Omega Bay”, and a little later “isolated small spots of fuel oil, in algae and on rocks” on Balaklava’s Serebryany beach.
However, judging by social networks, birds in fuel oil have already been spotted on the western coast of Crimea, as well as, almost everywhere, on its Southern coast. Well, while none of the “officials” are reporting truthful information about the pollution, instructions on how to independently handle a dead bird that died from fuel oil pollution are appearing on Crimean social networks.
