Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.
Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local ...
Rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil left onboard a tanker that ran aground last year in ...
Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...
Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.
Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...
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 ...
Ukraine has accused Russia of a cover-up over the spill of thousands of barrels of oil from two tankers that split in two ...
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 ...
as well as in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions of Crimea and the Berdyansk Spit, some 145 kilometers (90 miles) north of the Kerch Strait. President Vladimir Putin earlier in January called ...