Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled ... Videos geolocated by CNN showed a beach near Anapa, north of the city of Novorossiysk, has been flooded with oil.

By Nataliya Vasilyeva Reporting from Istanbul When a 28-year-old volunteer named Nikolai stepped onto a sandy beach on Russia’s Black Sea coast in ... “I had seen the photos before I arrived ...

Over the past month, the popular Black Sea resort beaches of Russia’s Krasnodar ... no experience as a volunteer but was moved by the photos and videos emerging from the affected zones.

Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated ... They were shovelling up black oil from beaches and removing it in plastic ...

The fires are located in the Black Sea in places without gas and oil-producing rigs, the Crimean Wind monitoring group said on Telegram. The group posted photos of its findings from one month ago ...

It’s been roughly two weeks since a storm in the Kerch Strait wrecked two oil tankers, killing one crewman and leaking thousands of metric tons of oil into the Black Sea. Since that disaster on ...

The Kerch Strait runs between the Black Sea ... from sandy beaches in and around Anapa, a summer resort. Environmental groups have reported deaths of dolphins, porpoises and sea birds.