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

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

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

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will help assess the damage from the russian fuel oil spill into the Black Sea that ...

Fuel oil spilt from two ageing tankers that broke up in a storm in the Kerch Strait in December has affected some forty miles ...

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators ...

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month An emergency task force arrived ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch ... that this spill could be more than twice the size of a similar disaster in the strait in 2007 ...

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The Kerch Strait is an important global shipping route, providing passage from the inland Sea of Azov to the ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month ...