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More than 3,000 metric tons of oil products may have leaked into the Kerch Strait after two aging Russian oil tankers were caught in a
storm, the state-run TASS news agencyreported Monday, citing satellite imagery.Together, the tankers were carrying around 9,000 metric tons
of mazut, a low-grade heavy fuel oil used in power plants in the former Soviet Union, an unnamed emergency official told TASS
prevent the oil products from reaching shore, where at least four settlements were put on high alert on Monday afternoon.The tanker
Volgoneft 212 split in two and sank when it was caught in a storm in the Kerch Strait on Sunday, while Volgoneft 239 was severely damaged
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