Two oil tankers carrying nearly 9,000 metric tons of mazut fuel were damaged by a storm, broke in half, sunk and caused oil spills in Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea and Russia, a spokesman for Russia’s emergency services said Sunday.
Mazut is used in power plants and other applications in countries of the former Soviet Union and Iran.
🚨 Two Russian tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 sank near the Kerch Bridge in the Black Sea. https://t.co/xzbIMEUGNV pic.twitter.com/CSHoh6eOL8
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) December 15, 2024
Volgoneft 212, ran aground with 13 crew members were evacuated and one member dying, Russia’s federal sea and inland water transport agency, Rosmorrechflot, wrote in a statement obtained by Russian state-run TASS.
Volgoneft 239 also was damaged, adrift for several hours and ran aground with 14 crew members aboard.
