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.

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 ...

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local ...

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 ...

Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 56 kilometres of coastline after at least 3700 tons of heavy oil spilled into the Kerch Strait.

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

Russia continues to suffer military defeats in the strategically vital Black Sea, one of Moscow's most crucial avenues for political and economic influence into the Mediterranean and beyond.