Volunteers collected over 200 bags of fuel oil in Kuban.

Volunteers from the "Dolphins" headquarters collected over 200 bags of sand contaminated with fuel oil in the Temryuk district. They were moved from the shore to a location accessible by equipment.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," the environmental consequences of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait have not been eliminated even a year after the tanker disaster, as acknowledged by scientists and Kuban authorities. On December 14, the government commission coordinating the cleanup of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait reported that more than 90% of the spilled oil had been collected.

Volunteers from the "Dolphins" headquarters are still working in the Temryuk district, cleaning up the shoreline after the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait. "Every day we are getting a little closer to defeating this spill," the headquarters' Telegram channel stated.

On December 20, volunteers "carried over 200 bags of a mixture of fuel oil and sand; they dragged them behind the coastal ledges, where equipment could reach them," the publication stated.

Volunteers complained that federal forces were not providing assistance. "Federal services that should be involved in emergency response or at least assisting are practically nonexistent on the shore. This isn't about Kuban-SPAS—the district rescuers have enough work to do without us, and we see their contribution," the statement said.

On December 18, the Krasnodar Krai emergency response headquarters reported that "the combined force and resources involved in eliminating the consequences of the emergency consists of 796 people and 184 pieces of equipment."

"Over the past week, no new oil spills were detected on the coast. According to satellite imagery, no pollution of the Black Sea was detected," according to data from a government commission posted by the emergency response headquarters.

Rospotrebnadzor has declared 141 beaches in Anapa and nine beaches in the Temryuk district unsuitable for recreation. Signs informing about the ban on swimming have been installed there, and announcements about this are also displayed on video screens in various areas of Anapa.