The press release also announced the evacuation of all 14 crew members from one of the two damaged tankers.
A crew member of the second tanker died and 12 others had already been evacuated on Sunday, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.
These two Russian tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, ran aground on Sunday during a storm near Crimea.
They are located in the Kerch Strait, which connects Russia to this Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
The causes of this double grounding were not immediately known, but two investigations were opened for “violation of safety rules”.
For its part, Ukraine’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources said on Monday that Russia was “using river boats on the high seas in stormy conditions”, accusing it of “neglecting international safety standards”. .
He also denounced “a threat of a large-scale environmental disaster in the Black Sea” after this shipwreck.
