An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month.

Over 155,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected since fuel spilled from two tankers during a storm four weeks ago. A month after the fuel spill in the Kerch Strait from two tankers affected by storms,

A creditor has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Russian owner of a ship that caused an environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Black Sea last month, government and court documents show.