Moscow, April 4, 2025 (AFP) - Russia puts cost of Black Sea oil spill at almost $1 bn

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2025-04-04

Russia on Friday put the cost of a massive Black Sea oil spill in December from two tankers at almost $1 billion, which it is attempting to claim back from the ships' owners. The head of Russia's environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, told a government meeting on the clean-up that the "total sum presented to the polluting companies is 84.9 billion rubles ($998 million)". The ships' owners have a month to pay up voluntarily o......

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