On the night of Dec. 15, 2024, two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank in the Kerch Strait, a narrow ...

On President Vladimir Putin’s orders, the Russian Transport Ministry has launched an inspection of companies operating tanker ...

After the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, scientists discovered a dangerous concentration of the carcinogenic compound ...

Following the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, scientists have discovered a dangerous concentration of the carcinogen ...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will help assess the damage from the russian fuel oil spill into the Black Sea that ...

The Russian government has initiated an inspection of its tanker fleet following a significant oil spill caused by two aging tankers during a storm. The Volgoneft 212 split in the Kerch Strait while ...

Part of Russia's Pacific island region of Sakhalin is on high alert after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast ...

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

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 ...