The Russian navy is under pressure from attacks by the Ukrainian military in the Black Sea and the uncertain future of its base off the Syrian coast, but it may be able to find some respite with the ...

Russian tanker breaks apart in Black Sea storm, spilling 4,300 tons of fuel oil near Crimea's Kerch Strait.

Russian authorities sought to limit the damage on Monday from oil spilled into the Kerch Strait by two ageing tankers that ...

According to the Emergencies Ministry department in Crimea, the tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 collided during a storm on December 15 ...

Russian state media TASS reported that the Volgoneft 212 tanker had its bow torn off in the storm. One of the vessel’s crew members died in the incident, it said. Volgoneft 239 was also damaged and ...

A heavy storm Sunday damaged two Russian tankers carrying thousands of barrels of oil and caused an unknown amount to spill ...

Russia said Monday that fuel oil has leaked into the Kerch Strait, off the coast of the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, after two ageing oil tankers were caught in a storm.

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, the Church of England's second-highest bishop, hit back Monday at calls for him to ...

Two Russian tankers that spilled oil into the Kerch Strait after sustaining serious damage during a heavy storm on Sunday ...

Environmentalists are warning of a potential disaster posed by two Russian oil tankers that ran aground in the ecologically sensitive waters off Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimean coastline as Russian ...

Two Russian tankers believed to be carrying thousands of tons of oil were damaged off the coast of Crimea in the early hours ...

A Russian tanker has sunk in the Kerch Strait during a violent Black Sea storm, killing one seafarer and causing an oil spill ...