Moscow, Jan 8, 2025 (AFP) - Crimea chief sounds alarm over risk from oil spill

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The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea warned Wednesday there was a "high risk" the peninsula would suffer severe environmental damage from an oil spill in the Black Sea. Two Russian oil tankers on December 15 spilt around 2,400 tonnes of heavy fuel oil into the sea in the Kerch Strait between Crimea and southern Russia. So far the spill has largely affected southern Russia's Krasnodar region, where the oil has contaminated beaches and killed birds an......

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