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

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

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran aground in December, sparking a devastating oil spill that has damaged miles of coastline along the Black Sea.

The fuel oil spilled by the Volgoneft-212 oil tanker, which crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, was intended for transfer to the tanker FIRN, part of the “shadow fleet” of aging ships that Russia uses to circumvent the G7-imposed oil export price cap,

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.

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 close to the shore both vessels with around 4,500 metric tonnes of fuel oil onboard.

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 December 15, 2024. A resolution to the effect has been signed, a statement, published on the Russian government website on Sunday, said.

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

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill in southern Russia. The incident, which damaged extensive stretches of the Black Sea coastline,

One enemy ship, which is not a missile carrier, was detected in the Black Sea as of 6:00 on Thursday, there are no enemy ships in the Sea of Azov, but six enemy ships in the Mediterranean Sea, two of which are carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total salvo of up to 22 missiles,

Specialists have reported new traces of oil on the beaches of the Krasnodar Region following a spill caused by a tanker accident in the Kerch Strait, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's press service told TASS.

A wave of cancellations is sweeping through spas and children's camps in Anapa, a Russian town on the Black Sea. As the pollution from a huge December 2024 oil spill washes onto local beaches, many Russians are abandoning their holiday plans in the southern Krasnodar region.