Authorities estimate the tankers were carrying 9,200 tons of fuel oil, of which approximately 40% potentially leaked into the ...

Fuel oil spilled into the Black Sea by two storm-wrecked Russian tankers was washed ashore in southwestern Russia.

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has introduced a federal state of emergency due to the fuel oil spill following the 15 December ...

Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 35 miles of coastline, after at least 3,700 tons of heavy ...

Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for ...

Authorities in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Wednesday declared a region-wide emergency, saying that oil was still ...

Russia declared a federal emergency after a Black Sea oil spill on December 27, 2024, caused by a tanker splitting during a ...

The Black Sea oil spill has become a major environmental disaster, forcing Russia to declare a federal emergency.

One tanker sank and another ran aground on December 15 in the Kerch Strait between Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula.

Russia warned on Saturday of severe environmental damage from a huge oil spill in the Black Sea caused when two tankers collided in a storm near Crimea, which declared a state of emergency.

The Russian government made the declaration after a number of its tankers were sank in the body of water between itself, ...

Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 ...