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

More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being damaged in a storm. The spill prompted Russian authorities to declare a ...

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

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill ...

After crews were able to contain the leak, now environmental groups are working to learn if there was any damage done.

Speaking to the Russian news outlet Kommersant, Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, a scientific director at the Russian Academy of Sciences, deemed an oil spill in the Black Sea to be the "worst ecological ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told the TASS state news agency on Friday, as authorities ...

A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst "environmental catastrophe" of the 21st Century. "This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities," Viktor ...