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.

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.

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

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

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.

Oil spilled from two wrecked tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia. Governor Veniamin Kondratiev declared a regionwide emergency to deal with the pollution appearing in the Anapa and Temryuk districts,

A deepening trough lies near the North Tropical Coast northeast coast, with an embedded tropical low off the coast of Cairns. A high [1023 hPa] near New Zealand is maintaining a ridge over the remaining north Queensland waters. The ridge is combining with ...

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 environmental center Tatyana Belei told Interfax. "The deaths of 68-69 dolphins have been recorded since December 15," Belei said.

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 during a devastating storm in the Kerch Strait.