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

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

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia ...

After the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, scientists discovered a dangerous concentration of the carcinogenic compound ...

Two Russian ships, the Volgoneft-239 and the Volgoneft-212, were badly damaged in stormy weather on Dec. 15, resulting in ...

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

As of 6 a.m. on Thursday, February 6, russia keeps one ship on combat duty in the Black Sea – a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total salvo of up to 4 ...

(AP) — An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it ...

(Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via Associated Press) An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm ...

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

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