Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told ...

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.

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in ...

Fresh oil started pouring from a stricken Russian tanker in the Black Sea on Friday, said officials in Moscow, as Ukraine warned of "terrible environmental consequences" from the spill.By trying to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to deal with the ...

Impact Link Ukrainian naval drones armed with heat-seeking missiles shot down two Russian helicopters and damaged a third above the Black Sea earlier this week, Kyiv said on Thursday. The unusual ...

The Kerch Strait runs between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and separates Crimea's Kerch Peninsula from Russia's Krasnodar region. Rescue workers have now cleared more than 86,000 metric tons ...

More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being ...