Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

Full passport control has been introduced at the entrance to the bridge across the Kerch Strait from the mainland Krasnodar ...

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

Ukraine has accused Russia of a cover-up over the spill of thousands of barrels of oil from two tankers that split in two ...

KRASNODAR. Jan 23 (Interfax) - The number of dolphins killed by a fuel oil spill from wrecked tankers in the Kerch Strait has grown to 68-69, Director of the Delpha dolphin rescue research and ...

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - The Russian government's reserve fund has allotted 1.5 billion rubles to mitigate the damage from the fuel oil spill following a tanker wreck in the Kerch Strait on ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up thousands of tons of fuel oil.

So far, oil from the spill has washed up along beaches in Russia’s Krasnodar region ... north of the Kerch Strait. President Vladimir Putin earlier in January called the spill “one of the ...

A dolphin rehabilitation centre in Russia's Krasnodar Territory told Interfax ... more than any other country so far from the Kerch Strait accident," Dmitry Markin of Greenpeace said.