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

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

Up to 5000 tonnes of oil have leaked into the Kerch Strait, the body of water separating Russia from annexed Crimea, following the destruction of two oil tankers during severe storms last month, ...

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being ...

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

Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 tankers carrying fuel oil wrecked in the Kerch Strait on December 15, causing a fuel leak. According to the Russian Transport Ministry, four tanks with petroleum ...

Heavy fuel oil has been washing up on hundreds of kilometers of ... clean-up operation posted videos on social media of believers wading into the sea off Anapa in the pitch black to take the Epiphany ...

An aging Russian oil tanker split in two during a brutal winter storm, unleashing thousands of tons of fuel into the Black ...

The head of state also invited Minister of Emergencies Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov, and Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt to speak on the topic ...

The oil spilled from two wrecked Russian tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia.

Oil spill in the Black Sea contaminates beaches and threatens wildlife, amid little to no response from the Russian ...