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 ...

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 ...

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

Over 155,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected since fuel spilled from two tankers during a storm four weeks ago. A month after the fuel spill in the Kerch Strait from two tankers ...

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The Kerch Strait is an important global shipping route, providing passage from the inland Sea of Azov to the ...

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 ...

rescuers and volunteers work to clean up tons of fuel oil that spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers more then three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, in Russia's southern Krasnodar region.

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 ...