The Volgoneft-239 ran aground on Dec. 15 during severe storms in the Kerch Strait. Emergency crews work around the clock to ...
Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.
After the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, scientists discovered a dangerous concentration of the carcinogenic compound ...
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 ...
Fuel oil spilt from two ageing tankers that broke up in a storm in the Kerch Strait in December has affected some forty miles of coastline. Of the two ships, one sank while the other was stranded ...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will help assess the damage from the russian fuel oil spill into the Black Sea that ...
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 ...