Russian officials originally claimed that the spill was contained, but soon after the disaster, sightings of floating oil and tarred birds were reported all along Russia’s Black Sea coast.

Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the oil spill, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest ...

While oil spills have already occurred in the region in the past, the December incident surpasses anything the Black Sea has ever seen. In the closest comparable case, 1,300 tons of fuel oil were ...

Over the past month, the popular Black Sea resort beaches of Russia ... Undercurrents spread the spill and can bring oil to the surface, where it traps birds. Local environmentalists immediately ...

CPC, however is subject to Russian law, since the pipeline crosses Russian territory, carrying about 2m barrels of crude from ...

Any danger of the oil reaching Bulgaria is speculation ... saying there is no danger of it reaching Bulgarian Black Sea waters. Tourism Minister Miroslav Borshosh called the media reports ...

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 Kerch Strait in December 2024. The Ministry ...

following the appearance of a 'smelly black tar' on the sands. The pollution incident, which sparked fears of a marine oil spill, prompted coastguards to initiate a beach clean-up and investigation.

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local volunteers complain that the government is interfering with their clean-up ...

As ageing and deficient tankers in the "Russian shadow fleet" traffic the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, a major oil spill ...