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

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators ...

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

Specialists of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) have conducted over 800 tests of fish harvested in the Black Sea but found no inconsistences ...

Heavy fuel oil has been washing up on hundreds of kilometers of beaches along Russia’s southern coast since two aging Russian tankers were caught in a storm in the Kerch Strait on Dec. 15. Russians in ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that ... on a beach in Anapa - some 40 miles from the strait. BBC Verify has analysed reports ...

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters ... of Crimea since two ageing Russian ...

Thirty-two dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait ... of the Krasnodar region’s Anapa and Temryuk districts.