"I think that I will not be mistaken if I say that an important critical moment in the liquidation of the accident has already been passed," RIA Novosti quoted the governor.

According to him, the situation has been taken under control.

“And what we saw here 3-5 days later (after the incident. - RT ) ... and what we have now are two big differences,” he noted.

As Uss emphasized, at the scene of an emergency there is ongoing “environmental monitoring by the forces of federal structures, Krasnoyarsk ecologists, representatives of our ministry, as well as those who represent science in the Siberian Federal University, are working here.”

Earlier it was reported that more than 26 thousand cubic meters of oil-water mixture was collected at the site of the fuel spill near Norilsk. 

At the end of May, diesel fuel spilled at the CHPP-3 owned by Norilsk Nickel.

After the incident, four criminal cases were instituted.