Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the incident an 'ecological disaster' as officials and volunteers attempt to clean beaches contaminated with the heavy oil.
Experts have said 32 dolphins have died since oil oozed out of two tankers in stormy weather three weeks ago near southern Russia. The spill happened in the Kerch Strait waterway, which separates the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula from Russia's southern Krasnodar region. The deaths are 'most likely related to the fuel oil spill', said the Delfa Dolphin Rescue and Research Centre based in Sochi on Russia's Black Sea coast.
By Sunday, officials and volunteers from Russia's emergencies ministry had removed more than 96,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil from the shoreline of the Krasnodar region's Anapa and Temryuk districts. Previously, the ministry had estimated up to 200,000 tons in total may have been contaminated with a low-grade heavy oil product called mazut. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an 'ecological disaster'.
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