On President Vladimir Putin’s orders, the Russian Transport Ministry has launched an inspection of companies operating tanker ...

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

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

On the night of Dec. 15, 2024, two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank in the Kerch Strait, a narrow ...

Experts say the spill highlights the dangers posed by Putin’s “shadow fleet” of ships, a vast network of vessels that circumvent Western sanctions by continuing to sell oil indirectly to the EU and ...

The Russian government has initiated an inspection of its tanker fleet following a significant oil spill caused by two aging tankers during a storm. The Volgoneft 212 split in the Kerch Strait while ...

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

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.