Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators scooping up the black slick along the Crimean and Russian coasts. Authorities said more than 167,

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of frozen lakes and rivers, have been forced to cancel their traditional ceremonies due to unusually warm winter temperatures.

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month.

Russia's Emergencies Ministry said Sunday that over 96,000 tons of contaminated sand and soil had been removed by officials and volunteers along the shoreline of the Krasnodar region's Anapa and Temryuk districts. The ministry said it was working to clean ...

Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Turkey and Europe, and called the attack an "act of energy terrorism".

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in recent history as the Kremlin continues to assess the full scale of the catastrophe.

The Turkish Stream pipeline enabled Russia to avoid using Ukraine as a transit country when exporting natural gas to Europe, the Middle East Monitor reported.

Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas

removed 120 cubic meters of oil waste from beaches of south Russia’s resort city of Anapa in the past day, local authorities said. "Today, 51 volunteers and 10 pieces of equipment were working ...

The authorities in the town of Anapa, the administrative centre of Anapa Urban District in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, claimed that air defence systems were responding. As noted by BBC News Russian ...

Russia reported intercepting nine Ukrainian drones targeting the TurkStream gas pipeline's infrastructure, specifically a compressor station in Krasnodar. No casualties occurred and minor damage was quickly repaired.

The Kremlin accused Ukraine on Monday of conducting "energy terrorism" and posing a danger to Europe's energy security, after an attempted drone attack on part of a major gas pipeline that carries Russian supplies to Turkey.