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The owners of the Delfi tanker did not give the state the opportunity to tow it. Local authorities could do nothing about it, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky after local elections He promised to name the owners of the Delfi tanker that sank near the beach in Odessa and which political party they belong to. This was reported by the Interfax-Ukraine agency on September 12 after Zelensky’s briefing in Odessa.
“For 10 months, the owners did not give the state any opportunity for us to do this work. The local authorities could not do anything. No one was able to do anything substantially with the owners,” he added. – he said at a briefing Saturday in Odessa.
Zelensky considered Delfi’s owners criminal because they were telling a lie, even to him personally.
“They asked us to give a month and said they would find a company to take this Delfi tanker off the beach,” said the president.
According to him, the state was interested in what kind of tanker “without identification marks and flags.”
“Everyone was afraid and they told us there were some Western beneficiaries. We found the beneficiaries. We will not say the name of the political party, because they will say that I said it before the local elections. We will wait for the local elections to end, and then we will tell them who – the beneficiaries of this “western”, “modern” tanker, Zelensky stressed.
The president said the owners did not allow the tanker to be recalled because they wanted to make money from it.
“It’s just for cutting metal, as these people ‘cut’ our country their entire lives,” he said.
The president drew attention to the fact that the entire tanker towing process took 50 days and the actual work took 30 days.
“I understand that this is a long time, but, if we take the whole period during which the state was actually able to tow the Delfi tanker, I think it was fast. But unfortunately, we apologize, we were not able to intervene from the beginning and” break “This private company, “Zelensky summarized.
Tanker Delfi sank near the beach in Odessa during a storm in November 2019. It crept slowly near Dolphin Beach until it ran aground. As a result, the ship was flooded. According to media reports, Delfi could be involved in oil smuggling… After the shipwreck, the content of petroleum products in the water area. exceeded the norm 157 times.
Tank lifting work started on July 24th. 26 of August they put it on the keel. On September 8, the local newspaper Dumskaya reported that the climb had been suspended due to a storm warning.
Delfi was towed to the port of Chornomorsk on September 10.
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