A Russian official said a recent oil spill in the Black Sea was unprecedented and could have been avoided, highlighting the ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil ...

Over 155,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected since fuel spilled from two tankers during a storm four ...

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency on Saturday after oil was detected on the ...

A creditor has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Russian owner of a ship that caused an environmentally disastrous ...

Most of the more than 30 dolphins killed in a Russian oil spill in the Kerch Strait were from the endangered Azov species.

Fresh oil started pouring from a stricken Russian tanker in the Black Sea on Friday, said officials in Moscow, as Ukraine ...

MOSCOW. Jan 13 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced the establishment of an ad hoc government commission to address the consequences of the recent spill of oil products ...

Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told ...

The Kerch Strait is an important global shipping route ... It has also been a key point of conflict between Russia and Ukraine after Moscow annexed the peninsula in 2014. In 2016, Ukraine took ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, ...

north of the Kerch Strait. It contaminated an area 14 1/2-kilometer (9-mile) long, Moscow-installed Gov. Yevgeny Balitsky wrote on Telegram. Russian-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea ...