Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov announced that the damaged tanker would be drained earlier this month but ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

A wave of cancellations is sweeping through spas and children's camps in Anapa, a Russian town on the Black Sea, as many Russians abandon their holiday plans in the southern Krasnodar region because ...

Ukraine has accused Russia of a cover-up over the spill of thousands of barrels of oil from two tankers that split in two ...

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

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators ...