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

The Cold War-era submarine base was converted to a museum after Ukraine’s independence, but it seems its original purpose has been restored.

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged ...

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian ...

The cows have come home at a Beaver County dairy farm that was heavily damaged by a major fire over a year ago.

A man who died after a tree fell on his car in Raphoe, County Donegal, has been named as 20-year-old Kacper Dudek. The incident happened on the N14, north of Lifford, near Ballinalecky Cross, early on ...

Moscow has dramatically strengthened security at the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge, implementing full passport control at the crossing that connects occupied Crimea with Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. The ...

"Yantar" - a Russian spy ship has entered the Kattegat Strait, which divides two NATO countries: Denmark and Sweden. There ...

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 ...

Russia has implemented mandatory passport checks at the entry point to the Kerch Bridge from the Krasnodar region. This measure, confirmed by Alexander Ovdyenko, the Russian Minister of Transport in ...

KRASNODAR. Jan 23 (Interfax) - The number of dolphins killed by a fuel oil spill from wrecked tankers in the Kerch Strait has grown to 68-69, Director of the Delpha dolphin rescue research and ...

Two Russian ships, the Volgoneft-239 and the Volgoneft-212, were badly damaged in stormy weather on Dec. 15, resulting in thousands of tons of low-grade fuel oil called mazut spilling into the Kerch ...