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

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

December incident in which two aging oil tankers were caught in a storm and broke in half in the Kerch Strait, spilling 2,500 ...

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 ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil ...

Any danger of the oil reaching Bulgaria is speculation, the tourism minister said. SOFIA - Following a significant oil spill ...

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 ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

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 ...

(AP) — 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 ...

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 ...