Zaporozhye Region governor Yevgeny Balitsky announced on January 14 that cleanup operations on the Azov Sea coast had ended, with as much as 59,700 tons of polluted sand being removed from a 14.5 kilo ...

The Russian government has initiated an inspection of its tanker fleet following a significant oil spill caused by two aging tankers during a storm. The Volgoneft 212 split in the Kerch Strait while ...

As of 06:00 a.m. on Friday, January 31, russia has 2 ships on combat duty in the Black Sea, 1 of which is a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total ...

Footage shows Russian divers inspecting the wreckage of a sunken tanker in the Black Sea and addressing the damage caused by an oil spill from the vessel and another that ran aground. The first video ...

Specialists have reported new traces of oil on the beaches of the Krasnodar Region following a spill caused by a tanker accident in the Kerch Strait, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's press service ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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