“Kamchatka has a unique nature.

Actions that lead to its destruction are completely unacceptable.

It is necessary to take prompt measures to eliminate the consequences of pollution, to do everything possible so that in the future such a situation could not repeat itself, "RIA Novosti reports.

Trutnev urged to find the culprits of the emergency, and also expressed confidence that the governor of the region would take personal part in "organizing work to eliminate the consequences of the ecological disaster."

Earlier, the Acting Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Kamchatka Territory, Aleksey Kumarkov, said that in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on the eastern coast of Kamchatka, an excess of the content of oil products was detected by 3.6 times, phenol - by 2.5 times.