Authorities in Russia’s Volgograd region and the Republic of Tatarstan have signed at least 14 government contracts for organizing “health and recreation” trips for children to the Black Sea resort city of Anapa,

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will help assess the damage from the russian fuel oil spill into the Black Sea that leaked from damaged tankers in the

Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

Oil spilled from two wrecked tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia. Governor Veniamin Kondratiev declared a regionwide emergency to deal with the pollution appearing in the Anapa and Temryuk districts,

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

As of 06:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 29, russia keeps 1 ship on combat duty in the Black Sea, which is not a missile carrier, there are no enemy ships in the

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran aground in December, sparking a devastating oil spill that has damaged miles of coastline along the Black Sea.

The fuel oil spilled by the Volgoneft-212 oil tanker, which crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, was intended for transfer to the tanker FIRN, part of the “shadow fleet” of aging ships that Russia uses to circumvent the G7-imposed oil export price cap,

Fuel oil spilt from two ageing tankers that broke up in a storm in the Kerch Strait in December has affected some forty miles of coastline. Of the two ships, one sank while the other was stranded close to the shore both vessels with around 4,500 metric tonnes of fuel oil onboard.

A Russian official said a recent oil spill in the Black Sea was unprecedented and could have been avoided, highlighting the age of the vessels involved.

“On the eve of the UN conference on Oceans, UNEP is ready to provide Ukraine with technical assistance in assessing the damage caused to the Black Sea ecosystem by this disaster. This will be an important step in overcoming the consequences of the accident,” the response reads.

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - The Russian government's reserve fund has allotted 1.5 billion rubles to mitigate the damage from the fuel oil spill following a tanker wreck in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024. A resolution to the effect has been signed, a statement, published on the Russian government website on Sunday, said.