The ecological catastrophe began December 15, when two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, sank during a storm in the Kerch Strait.

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled ... Videos geolocated by CNN show blackened waves washing the low-quality heavy fuel oil – known as mazut – onto ...

As Russia delves the depths of the Black Sea in search of the crashed US drone, we take a look at what else might be lurking beneath the waves. From ancient shipwrecks to huge underwater rivers ...

Volunteers helping to clean up the oil spill on Russia’s Black Sea coast are appealing to Russian ... Video from the scene showed blackened waves washing the heavy fuel oil known as mazut ...

Russia has declared a federal state of emergency over an oil spill in the Black Sea, which came after a tanker ... ship as it sank in the rough waves. Russian authorities launched an aircraft ...

At the sea's edge, volunteers shovelled oil and blackened sand into white sacks to be taken away in trucks, as more viscous black tar drifted in on the waves. "I've never seen anything like this.

Romanian authorities in the seaside town of Costinești, on the Black Sea coast, have commissioned the widening of the beach ...