Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

Fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers nearly three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, close to eastern Crimea — about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Sevastopol, which lies on the southwest ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month ...

Ukraine has accused Russia of a cover-up over the spill of thousands of barrels of oil from two tankers that split in two ...

The spill began on Dec 15, when two ageing Russian tankers were caught in a storm off the Kerch Strait linking Crimea to southern ... dolphins – a type of harbour porpoise that look similar ...