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

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators ...

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 ...

resulting in thousands of tons of low-grade fuel oil called mazut spilling into the Kerch Strait. A crew from Russia’s Marine Rescue Service siphoned away the remaining 1,488 tons of oil left in ...

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

Russia’s Transport Ministry said on Thursday that far less oil has leaked into the Black Sea than initially feared after two tankers wrecked during a storm last month in the Kerch Strait ... “The ...

The damaged Volgoneft-239 tanker near the port of Taman (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP) The Kerch Strait is an important global shipping route, providing passage from the inland ...

The Kerch Strait runs between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and separates Crimea's Kerch Peninsula from Russia's Krasnodar region. Rescue workers have now cleared more than 86,000 metric tons ...

The Kerch Strait is an important global shipping route, providing passage from the inland Sea of Azov to the Black Sea. It has also been a key point of conflict between Russia and Ukraine after ...