A video about falsified fuel oil emissions in Agoy has raised doubts among commentators.

Unknown individuals are staging a video of fuel oil spills on the beach in Agoy to fuel environmental panic, Tuapse Telegram channels reported. Commenters countered that the video, which claims to be staged, was filmed from a distance and contains no evidence.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," rescuers reported that work to clean up the oil spill near the Tuapse Oil Refinery has been completed. Telegram users responded sarcastically to official reports on the cleanup of the oil spill near the refinery and promises to clean the beaches by June 1.

The claim of falsified fuel oil emissions has raised doubts among commentators.

The Telegram channel "Yug-4" published a video of a man walking along the beach in Agoy, filming the surf line. He is off-camera. "The sea is clean, the beach is clean. Everything is fine," the man says. He then pans the camera to several figures standing further away on the beach. "And there are boys digging, pouring fuel oil, filming, as if there was fuel oil here, in Agoi," he says. Three figures are visible in the video, but it's impossible to determine what exactly they are doing from the footage.

The recording received two comments. "Why didn't you approach them on camera?" " asked Alenchik.

Similar questions arose among readers of the Telegram channel "My Tuapse," where the video has garnered 29 comments.

"What, they filmed from the sidelines and didn't approach or show their faces? So it turns out that a fake is being created right before a person's eyes, and this person didn't do anything except film it. They could have at least approached and inquired, or if they'd found the actions suspicious, they could have called the police," writes Aleksandr.

"Is it too much trouble to call the police?" asked user I.

"It's not a given that this video isn't fake." "So it's just another fake after another?" commented Margarita Osetrova.

"I was at Agoy Beach on Sunday, and there's some fuel oil right by the water, but not much. Saying there isn't any is wrong," emphasized Karina.

Under posts about the ecology of the Tuapse District, a powerful barrage of comments from "concerned" people has been pouring in. "People: not locals, they confuse the names of villages, they write the same old stories about 'everything is covered in oil, everything is lost,'" writes the Telegram channel "By the Black Sea. Tuapse," run by the editorial staff of the publication "Tuapse News."

"This looks very much like a paid campaign to stir up environmental panic. There is real pollution after the April events in Tuapse, no one is denying it. But such "theatrical productions" only do harm—they discredit the real problem and scare away vacationers. "If this is a provocation, the goal is clear: to incite as much negativity as possible toward the Kuban resorts," the channel's message, which was reposted in its entirety by the Telegram channel of the Tuapse Municipal District Administration, reads.

Roman Pukalov, Director of Environmental Programs for the Green Patrol organization, stated that Mount Kadosh protected the beach in the village of Agoy from oil spills. In his opinion, if the information about the incriminating videos is true, then the "boys" should be punished according to the law.

According to him, after the appearance of a recording with the alleged falsification of fuel oil emissions He asked residents to walk along the beach and take videos, and posted several recordings that showed no emissions.

Oil spill cleanup continues in Tuapse
 
As of May 21, more than 31,200 cubic meters of contaminated soil and water-oil mixture had been collected and removed from Tuapse.  
The total number of forces and resources involved in the cleanup of the oil spill is 475 people and 74 pieces of equipment, including from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters reported on its Telegram channel.