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 ...

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

resulting in thousands of tonnes of low-grade fuel oil called mazut spilling into the Kerch Strait. A crew from Russia’s Marine Rescue Service siphoned away the remaining 1,488 tonnes of oil ...

Two Russian ships, the Volgoneft-239 and the Volgoneft-212, were badly damaged in stormy weather in December, resulting in thousands of tonnes of low-grade fuel oil called mazut spilling into the ...

In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, an excavator works removing oil near the damaged Volgoneft-239 tanker from which the ...

A large-scale fuel oil pollution, likely caused by the sinking of Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait, has been discovered on the coast of Odesa Oblast. Source: Ivan Rusiev, a scientist and the head ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged ...