Occupied Crimea declared a regional-level technological emergency due to massive fuel oil spills caused by sunken Russian oil tankers.
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226 tons of soil contaminated with petroleum products were collected and removed from the coastline of Arshintsevska Spit.
861 kilometers of coastline were inspected.
127 kilometers of coastline were covered in a single day.
Over 4,000 tons of fuel oil spilled into the Black Sea after two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, began sinking in the Kerch Strait.
1,700 tons of oil-contaminated sand were collected from the coastline in Krasnodar Krai.
Russian authorities in annexed Crimea declared a regional-level technological emergency due to massive fuel oil spills in the Black Sea.
Over 100 teachers have relocated to Crimea through the program, according to Ukraine's Regional Center for Human Rights
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