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

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

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

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 tankers carrying fuel oil wrecked in the Kerch Strait on December 15, causing a fuel leak. According to the Russian Transport Ministry, four tanks with petroleum ...

A crew from Russia’s Marine Rescue Service siphoned away the remaining 1,488 tonnes of oil left in the grounded Volgoneft-239 in a six-day operation, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev said ...

The head of state also invited Minister of Emergencies Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov, and Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt to speak on the topic ...

The oil spilled from two wrecked Russian tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia.

"The coastal emergency and rescue team of the Azov-Black Sea Branch of the Marine Rescue Service gathered 225 kg of oily waste from the area along the coastline; 14,565 kg by cumulative total. Efforts ...