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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Russian government has allocated 1.5 billion rubles. from its reserve fund to eliminate the consequences of the oil spill in the Kerch Strait. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister ...

Any danger of the oil reaching Bulgaria is speculation, the tourism minister said. SOFIA - Following a significant oil spill in the Kerch Strait, Sofia is trying to allay fears about the risks to ...

This Sisyphean cleanup is a result of a mid-December incident in which two aging oil tankers were caught in a storm and broke in half in the Kerch Strait ... While the spill is not as large ...

So far, oil from the spill has washed up along beaches in Russia ... some 90 miles north of the Kerch Strait. Earlier this month, President Vladimir Putin called the spill “one of the most ...