This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the official's post on his Facebook page.

“Today we held a meeting of the Commission for Emergency Situations on the sunken tanker Delfi. The main thing is that the situation has been recognized as an emergency, at the local level, ”Kutsyi said.

According to him, now, according to the law, this must be approved by the expert commission of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

“After that, the process of liquidating the tanker will finally pass exclusively to the state,” he added.

On November 22, 2019, it was reported that the Delfi tanker flying the flag of Moldova, which had previously suffered a disaster near Odessa, ran aground about a kilometer from the Dolphin beach.

On July 19, 2020, the media reported that two attempts to refloat and put on the keel of a tanker off the coast of Odessa were unsuccessful.