Officials reported no leaks from the tankers that sank near Anapa.

Divers found no leaks from the parts of the fuel oil tankers that sank off the coast of Kuban. Telegram users expressed hope that the installation of the second cofferdam will proceed without fuel oil spills.

The Krasnodar Krai task force posted the results of the weekly meeting of the government commission for coordinating emergency response efforts following the tanker disaster in the Kerch Strait, led by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev, on its Telegram channel.

"As a result of diving inspections of the sunken fragments of the Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 tankers, no oil leaks were detected. Over the past week, no new oil spills were observed on the coast of Anapa and the Temryuk district," the statement reads.

Since the beginning of the work, more than 2,100 kilometers of coastline have been cleaned, including repeated cleanups. More than 185,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected, and over 184,000 tons have been transported to specialized organizations, according to a publication dated November 21.

On November 20, blogger Max Anapsky, whose Telegram channel has over five thousand subscribers, published a photo of a cofferdam being towed out to sea. "The second cofferdam is being towed from Novorossiysk to the Kerch Strait," he wrote.

This post had garnered eight comments by 6:56 PM Moscow time.

"Now the main thing is that it's installed properly. Without any emergencies," hoped Andrey Gusiy.

"The main thing is that they do it before the storms," opined Vlad.

They decided to do it before the New Year. "Well, that's right, the year is ending, we need to report on the work done and the amounts spent," commented a user with the nickname Android.

In August, satellite images showed that the Black Sea was continuing to be polluted with fuel oil from sunken tankers. Most of the fuel oil settled to the bottom, including in the area of Taman, Anapa, and the Bugay Spit, scientists concluded.

Materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spill have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".