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

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

Up to 5000 tonnes of oil have leaked into the Kerch Strait, the body of water separating Russia from annexed Crimea, ...

Russia’s Black Sea fleet eliminated a notional enemy warship during scheduled drills, according to a statement issued by the fleet’s press office on Thursday. “Under the scenario of the ...

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

resulting in thousands of tons of low-grade fuel oil called mazut spilling into the Kerch Strait. A crew from Russia’s Marine Rescue Service siphoned away the remaining 1,488 tons of oil left in ...

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

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

Moscow has been accused of using the so-called ghost fleet of tankers ... suffered more than any other country so far from the Kerch Strait accident," Dmitry Markin of Greenpeace said.