De ce Tuapse face știri

“You can smell it anywhere in the town,” one resident, Svetlana, told NBC News of the acrid stench that gets stronger the closer you get to Tuapse’s center. Tuapse se impune în această sâmbătă ca unul dintre subiectele care atrag atenția în Romania.

Faptele

• “You can smell it anywhere in the town,” one resident, Svetlana, told NBC News of the acrid stench that gets stronger the closer you get to Tuapse’s center.
• A fire broke out at a marine terminal in the Black Sea port of Tuapse after it came under a fresh Ukrainian drone attack, regional emergency officials said Friday, though media reports suggested the damage may also extend to an oil refinery that has been repeatedly struck over the past two weeks.
• The Krasnodar region’s emergency response center said more than 100 personnel were deployed to battle a blaze at the marine terminal.
• Residents of the usually picturesque Russian resort town of Tuapse were this week warned not to leave the homes or open windows as authorities tackled intense fires from a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on the town’s oil refinery.
• Tuapse now faces a daunting cleanup operation and a hit to its upcoming tourist season.

Ce știm

În detaliu, a fire broke out at a marine terminal in the Black Sea port of Tuapse after it came under a fresh Ukrainian drone attack, regional emergency officials said Friday, though media reports suggested the damage may also extend to an oil refinery that has been repeatedly struck over the past two weeks.

Concret, the Krasnodar region’s emergency response center said more than 100 personnel were deployed to battle a blaze at the marine terminal.

În plus, Residents of the usually picturesque Russian resort town of Tuapse were this week warned not to leave the homes or open windows as authorities tackled intense fires from a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on the town’s oil refinery.

Este de remarcat că Tuapse now faces a daunting cleanup operation and a hit to its upcoming tourist season.

În această etapă Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this week that Kyiv’s attacks “against civilian infrastructure are becoming more frequent,” adding that the strikes on Tuapse “could potentially cause serious environmental consequences.”

Cifrele

În detaliu, In recent days, Kyiv said it hit an oil facility near the city of Perm, more than 900 miles from Ukraine — part of what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy touted as a “new stage in the use of Ukrainian weapons to limit the potential of Russia’s war.”

Concret, the town is usually home to some 60,000 people, as well as the scores of tourists who visit in the summer to enjoy mild weather, sunshine and beaches.

În plus, Heavy machinery and more than 600 cleanup crews were deployed to work on the town’s shoreline, Kondratyev said, as he vowed to residents to “return” life to what it was before.

Este de remarcat că the Rosneft-operated refinery had stopped operations after it was first attacked on April 16, industry sources told Reuters.

Ce se spune

“People used to say that this is all happening somewhere farther away and we are fine,” she said, but “I think many have begun to realize everything that is happening.”

Contextul

Este de remarcat că In Tuapse, a sense that the economy and ecology of their town was now at risk meant “many people are in a depressed state,” said Svetlana. “There is nothing good to expect.”

În această etapă Russian state media largely ignored the situation in Tuapse until the third attack, on Tuesday.

În detaliu, Tuapse now finds itself the latest Russian hot spot in the four-year conflict that is increasingly weighing on Putin’s domestic popularity.

Concret, the independent broadcaster RTVI reported that the Rosneft-operated oil refinery in Tuapse was engulfed in flames on Friday morning, adding that its journalists did not see a fire at the marine terminal that authorities said was struck.

În plus, Tuapse has been under a state of emergency since Tuesday, when ​a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a huge fire at the oil refinery, prompting an evacuation of nearby residents and releasing slicks of oil into the waters off the coast.

Pe scurt

• A fire broke out at a marine terminal in the Black Sea port of Tuapse after it came under a fresh Ukrainian drone attack, regional emergency officials said Friday, though media reports suggested the damage may also extend to an oil refinery that has been repeatedly struck over the past two weeks.
• The Krasnodar region’s emergency response center said more than 100 personnel were deployed to battle a blaze at the marine terminal.
• The town is usually home to some 60,000 people, as well as the scores of tourists who visit in the summer to enjoy mild weather, sunshine and beaches.