Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.
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 ...
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 ...
On December 15, two Russian oil tankers sank in the Kerch Strait. According to emergency services, the vessels were carrying a total of about 9,200 tons of fuel oil. The spill contaminated dozens of ...
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 Kerch Strait oil spill occurred on December 15, 2024, when two Russian oil tankers carrying about 9,200 metric tons of petroleum products ran aground about eight kilometers (five miles) from shore ...