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

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch ... the strait, measuring at least 25km (15 miles) long. A second, smaller slick measuring around ...

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

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

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Kurenkov said that “the most difficult situation” had developed near the port of Taman ... north of the Kerch Strait. It contaminated an area 14 1/2-kilometer (9-mile) long, Moscow-installed ...

Kurenkov said that a "most difficult situation" had developed near the port of Taman ... some 145 kilometres north of the Kerch Strait. It contaminated an area over 14km long, Moscow-installed ...