Volunteers use flour to scrub reside birds following an oil spill attributable to two tankers broken in a storm within the Kerch Strait within the village of Vityazevo close to the Black Sea resort of Anapa, Russia, on December 20, 2024. 3,350 tonnes of low-grade gasoline have contaminated not less than 60km of shoreline on an necessary international transport route connecting vessels transferring between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
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