Putin Criticises Oil Spill Cleanup

Putin Says More Needs to Be Done to Clean up Black Sea Oil Spill
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to deal with the ecological disaster.
Putin frowns at oil spill cleanup weeks after it began
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, faulted the clean-up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new task force to take over the operation, almost four weeks after the spill commenced.
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The Black Sea is home to different cetacean species — some endangered — and it was the site of an oil spill in the middle of December that killed 31 of them.
Russia's Putin orders authorities to ramp up efforts to control Black Sea oil spill
Russian president emphasizes urgency of addressing oil spill after 2 oil tankers were damaged and 1 later sank in storm south of Kerch Strait - Anadolu Ajansı
Putin Criticizes Slow Response to Black Sea Oil Spill
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized Russian officials for their slow response to what he described as the country’s most serious environmental disaster in recent memory. “This is practically one of the most serious environmental challenges we’ve faced in recent years,
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