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Hundreds of volunteers showed up on Saturday (December 21) to shovel up tons of sticky oil mixed with sand from Russia's Black Sea coastline, after two aging Russian oil tankers were severely damaged by a weekend storm in the Kerch Strait. - REUTERS
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00:00It was only when we arrived here that we understood how serious the scale of damage is. We're
00:24now removing the top layer, but there are a lot of small oil flecks. How to remove those
00:28later is unclear. I don't imagine it's possible yet.

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