A Russian official said a recent oil spill in the Black Sea was unprecedented and could have been avoided, highlighting the age of the vessels involved.

Over 155,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected since fuel spilled from two tankers during a storm four weeks ago. A month after the fuel spill in the Kerch Strait from two tankers affected by storms,

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.

As a result of the fuel oil spill on December 15, following the collision of two tankers in the Kerch Strait, 32 dolphins have died. Activists from the Delfa Dolphin Rescue Center provided this information.

A creditor has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Russian owner of a ship that caused an environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Black Sea last month, government and court documents show.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for two wrecked tankers to be lifted out of the Kerch Strait to prevent an oil spill from spreading further. At a government meeting on Thursday, Putin said plans to lift the damaged tankers out of the strait should be made immediately and that the financing and training of appropriate specialists must be ensured.

A dolphin rescue center in Russia says 32 dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait near the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula

A 300-square-kilometre oil spill has been detected in the Azov Sea following a collision between two Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait. The wind may carry the oil products towards the shores of Mariupol.

An emergency task force led by Emergency Situations Minister Kurenkov arrived in Russia's Krasnodar region amid a worsening oil spill in the Kerch Strait, affecting both the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula and Ukraine's partially occupied territories.

After the fuel oil pollution of the Kerch Strait due to the accident of russian tankers, 61 killed cetaceans were found. The death of 32 of them is probably

Fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers nearly three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, close to eastern Crimea — about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Sevastopol, which lies on the southwest of the peninsula. “Today a regional emergency regime ...

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month.