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

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

A fuel oil spill from Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait has washed ashore near Odesa, according to ecologist Ivan Rusev.

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

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. The task force was set up after ...

Two tankers carrying a combined 9,200 metric tons of heavy fuel oil sank during a storm in the middle of December in the Kerch Strait, which separates mainland Russia from occupied Crimea.

The Russian army has deployed additional air defense systems to Crimea to protect key military targets, thus exposing other parts of the front, according to agents of the Ukrainian partisan movement ...

north of the Kerch Strait. It contaminated an area 14 1/2-kilometer (9-mile) long, Moscow-installed Gov. Yevgeny Balitsky wrote on Telegram. Russian-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea ...

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from ... officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency ...

Russian-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency last weekend after oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city, about 250 kilometres ...