ODESSA, March 15 - An oil spill in the Black Sea off the coast of Odessa region should disappear soon all by itself, according to Oleh Zolotariov, the head of the department for environmental and radiation monitoring at the checkpoints of the State Environmental Protection Inspectorate of the North-Western region of the Black Sea.

"Contamination was triggered by the spillage of light oil products… A storm and nature will most likely do their job - part [of the oil spill] will evaporate and part will dissolve in water. The threat to the coast is currently minimal," he said at an extraordinary meeting of the commission on technogenic and ecological security and emergency situations at Odessa Regional State Administration.