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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The fuel oil spilled by the Volgoneft-212 oil tanker, which crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, was intended for ...

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

An emergency task force led by Emergency Situations Minister Kurenkov arrived in Russia's Krasnodar region amid a worsening oil spill in the Kerch Strait, affecting both the Russian-occupied Crimean ...

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

(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 ...