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

"The coastal emergency and rescue team of the Azov-Black Sea Branch of the Marine Rescue Service gathered 225 kg of oily waste from the area along the coastline; 14,565 kg by cumulative total. Efforts ...

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators ...

Across Russia, the devout and the daring celebrate Epiphany on Jan. 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes ...

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

A creditor has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Russian owner of a ship that caused an environmentally disastrous ...

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two ...

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two ...

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

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