Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.
On December 15, the Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 fuel oil tankers sank in the Kerch Strait, causing a fuel spill. Russia's Transport Ministry said that four tanks with petroleum products were ...
Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch ... that this spill could be more than twice the size of a similar disaster in the strait in 2007 ...
Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian ...
Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators scooping up the black slick along the Crimean and Russian coasts.
On the night of Dec. 15, 2024, two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank in the Kerch Strait, a narrow maritime connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, off the coast ...
On President Vladimir Putin’s orders, the Russian Transport Ministry has launched an inspection of companies operating tanker ...