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 ...

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 ...

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 President Vladimir Putin’s orders, the Russian Transport Ministry has launched an inspection of companies operating tanker fleet vessels following the sinking of two ships in the Kerch Strait.

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.

The map locates the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov ... the Ukrainian Navy warned that oil from the spill could reach Ukraine’s Black Sea coast near Odesa and Mykolaiv, but Ukraine ...