Volunteers receive dozens of oil-covered birds amid a beach cleanup report in Vityazevo.

A thousand bags of oil-contaminated soil have been collected from the beach in Vityazevo, and approximately half of the contaminated area has been cleaned. Volunteers received over three hundred contaminated birds, and many were unable to be helped.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," an oil slick moving toward Anapa was detected 11 kilometers from the shore and treated with a sorbent. Authorities linked the slick, in which dozens of birds were contaminated, to drone attacks. On April 10th alone, over a hundred birds contaminated with oil were received at the rehabilitation center on Zhemchuzhnaya, and more birds are being brought to the center from Anapa's beaches.

More than 1,000 bags of oil-contaminated soil have been collected from the coastal strip at Tortuga Beach in the village of Vityazevo, covering 400 meters of the shoreline, the Krasnodar Krai task force reported today.

Sixty people began the cleanup on the morning of April 12. A total of approximately 700 meters of shoreline along the water's edge must be cleared, the statement said.

On April 11, the task force reported more than 200 dead and oil-contaminated birds.

On April 11, 125 birds were admitted to the Zhemchuzhnaya Rehabilitation Center, according to messages on the center's Telegram channel. "125 birds today, and we didn't pick up any by phone calls, otherwise there would be no one to pick them up and wash them all," the volunteers wrote.

As of 3:30 PM Moscow time, volunteers have delivered about 320 birds soiled with oil products, ecologist Georgy Kavanosyan reported on his Telegram channel.

Many are not being helped in time. "I'm currently at 40 Years of Victory Beach in Pnap. More than 10 birds are struggling to get to shore, exhausted. Some are making it, sitting on the shore, shaking. Please help save them. More than 15 are already dead on the shore...," user Wells wrote today in the "Razliv na svyazi" (Spill in Touch) Telegram chat.

"I'm not sure there are any volunteer drivers right now, as there are so many birds and not enough people. Ideally, we'd bring them ourselves, or put them in a box and send them by taxi," Daria said.

Blogger Yuri Ozarovsky reported that he's helping capture contaminated birds and transport them to a rehabilitation center. According to him, he transported at least nine birds today, including three loons.

As a reminder, on December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. A crew member of one of the tankers died as a result. In addition, an oil spill occurred, leading to catastrophic environmental consequences, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Fuel Oil Spill in the Kerch Strait".

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