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

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

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates ... as far north as the occupied city of Berdyansk in Ukraine and as far ...

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators scooping up the black slick along the Crimean and Russian coasts.

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in ... peninsula of Crimea since two ageing Russian tankers were caught in a storm in the Kerch strait on December 15. The ...

In the Russian city of Anapa, officials said that the ritual would be held at its traditional place on the Black Sea, despite the thousands of tons of oil that fell into the nearby Kerch Strait on Dec ...

Russian workers clean up a beach after oil spilled from two tankers in the Kerch Strait. Photo: Kransodar Krai administration Four months before that ruling, Volgotanker’s 4,190-dwt Volgoneft ...

Fuel oil spilled due to the accident of russian tankers in the Kerch Strait has reached the shores of the Sea of Azov, satellite images show an oil slick near the temporarily occupied Berdiansk, ...

the peninsula’s largest city, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Kerch Strait. In response to Putin’s call for action, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi accused ...

A 300-square-kilometre oil spill has been detected in the Azov Sea following a collision between two Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait. The wind may carry the oil products towards the shores of ...