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At a depth of 10 to 15 meters, all life is dead in the picturesque bay of Avatja in Kamchatka.
– 95 percent of all marine organisms have died at this depth. The fish, shrimp and crabs have survived, but they are very few, Russian marine biologist Ivan Usatov tells the independent Russian news site Meduza.
Already last week, local surfers reported that the popular beach on the outskirts of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is awash with dead squid, shellfish and seaweed. The surfers themselves suffered nausea and burning eyes after spending time in the water. Russian social networks were flooded with images of how the beautiful black volcanic beach has been transformed into a cemetery.
Local authorities trying to mitigate the conflict. According to Governor Vladimir Solodov, the contamination could be due to a poison leak, “natural causes” or a volcanic eruption.
Satellite images, which have been released by Greenpeace, contradict that natural causes were behind the mass deaths. They show how the water in the nearby Nalytjev River darkens between 3 and 8 September. This would indicate that the pollution comes from the ground.
Activists suspect large spills of rocket fuel from the Kozel site, where toxic waste is stored. The independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta demands that the Russian Defense Ministry publish information about the toxins stored there.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny writes on Twitter that the authorities are lying in the same way that they lied about his poisoning.
https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1312725582313029632
– Lies at the level of “fell into a coma from problems with metabolism” and “got poisoned”. The mass deaths at sea off Kamchatka are likely the result of a rocket fuel leak, which ended up in the sea via the river. The footprints can be seen on satellite images, “Navalny writes.
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