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 ...

After the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, scientists discovered a dangerous concentration of the carcinogenic compound benzo(a)pyrene in the soil from the local beaches. This discovery raises ...

On December 15, a disaster involving two Russian tankers, Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239, occurred in the Kerch Strait, resulting in the spill of at least 4,400 tons of fuel oil into the sea.

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 ...

So far, oil from the spill has washed up along beaches in Russia ... some 145 kilometers (90 miles) north of the Kerch Strait. President Vladimir Putin earlier in January called the spill ...

On President Vladimir Putin’s orders, the Russian Transport Ministry has launched an inspection of companies operating tanker ...

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 ...