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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The fuel oil spilled by the Volgoneft-212 oil tanker, which crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, was intended for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...