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

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

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 ...

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 ... that this spill could be more than twice the size of a similar disaster in the strait in 2007 ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up thousands of tons of fuel oil.

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

A Russian official said a recent oil spill in the Black Sea was unprecedented and could have been avoided, highlighting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...