An estimated 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil had spilled into the Kerch Strait after two Russian ships were seriously ...

Russian oil tankers began sinking near the Kerch Strait on December 15. They set out to sea without complying with navigation ...

Russian state media TASS reported that the Volgoneft 212 tanker had its bow torn off in the storm. One of the vessel’s crew members died in the incident, it said. Volgoneft 239 was also damaged and ...

Russia said Monday that fuel oil has leaked into the Kerch Strait, off the coast of the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, after two ageing oil tankers were caught in a storm.

Ukraine said on Monday Russia was to blame for a major oil spill in the Kerch Strait that leads into the Black Sea, accusing Moscow of breaking navigation safety rules by using old tankers and keeping ...

On Sunday, two Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait on the Black Sea caused a disaster. Several thousand tonnes of heavy fuel ...

Together, the two ships were carrying almost 9,000 tons of mazut, a heavy, low-grade fuel oil. Social media footage from the ...

European Union foreign ministers have adopted a 15th package of sanctions against Russia targeting tankers transporting ...

Two Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel were badly damaged in stormy weather near the Black Sea over the ...

Environmentalists are warning of a potential disaster posed by two Russian oil tankers that ran aground in the ecologically sensitive waters off Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimean coastline as Russian ...

A Russian tanker has sunk in the Kerch Strait during a violent Black Sea storm, killing one seafarer and causing an oil spill ...

SEVASTOPOL, December 16. /TASS/. Oil products are no longer leaking from the tanks of the tankers that collided in the Kerch Strait, a senior marine scientist said. It was earlier reported that nearly ...