Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When thousands of tons of oil spill into the sea According to Russian ... from oil following mid-December tanker crash in the Kerch Strait, in the settlement of Vityazevo in the southern Russian ...

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 ...