A volunteer is seen at a mobile scientific centre for monitoring of the offshore area and Black Sea coast cleanup trials during an oil spill clean-up operation in the village of Vityazevo, Krasnodar region, Russia. On December 15, 2024, the Russian Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport said that two oil fuel-laden tankers, Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239, had wrecked in the Kerch Strait during a storm. The tankers were estimated to carry about 9,200 tonnes of fuel oil, of which about 3,700 tonnes leaked into the sea.