Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday after an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first ...

Explosions were heard in the area of temporarily occupied Sevastopol, including in Kozacha Bay (Crimea), on the night of December 31. This occurred amid a drone attack and the operation of Russia ...

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

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged in ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged ...

The fuel oil spilled by the Volgoneft-212 oil tanker, which crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, was intended for transfer to the tanker FIRN, part of the “shadow fleet” of aging ships that ...

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian ...

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

(AP) — An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait ...

A large-scale fuel oil pollution, likely caused by the sinking of Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait, has been discovered on the coast of Odesa Oblast. Source: Ivan Rusiev, a scientist and the head ...