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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Booms rake the water in a bid to clean up tons of fuel oil between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov around Russia ... miles north of the Kerch Strait. It contaminated an area 9 miles long ...