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

Fuel oil spilt from two ageing tankers that broke up in a storm in the Kerch Strait in December has affected some forty miles of coastline. Of the two ships, one sank while the other was stranded ...

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

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - The Russian government's reserve fund has allotted 1.5 billion rubles to mitigate the damage from the fuel oil spill following a tanker wreck in the Kerch Strait on ...

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

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

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 ...

A creditor has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Russian owner of a ship that caused an environmentally disastrous ...

KRASNODAR. Jan 23 (Interfax) - The number of dolphins killed by a fuel oil spill from wrecked tankers in the Kerch Strait has grown to 68-69, Director of the Delpha dolphin rescue research and ...

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 ...