The Saratov Duma deputy proposes renaming the Black Sea to the 'Russian Sea,' after US President Trump renamed the Mexican ...

Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria have agreed on coordinated steps at the ministerial level to engage with international ...

The Russian army has deployed additional air defense systems to Crimea to protect key military targets, thus exposing other parts of the front, according to agents of the Ukrainian partisan movement ...

Russia's transport ministry said this week experts had established that about 2,400 metric tons of oil products had spilled into the sea, a smaller spill than initially feared. When the disaster ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea have announced a regional emergency after oil was ...

In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, rescuers and volunteers work to clean up tons of fuel oil that spilled out of two ...

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday (Jan 4) in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the ...

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Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency on Saturday, as oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city. Fuel oil spilled ...

Russian officials report that an oil leak from two old tankers has reached Crimea's beaches after encountering a storm last month. The cleanup involves over 10,000 people removing sand spoiled by ...

At least 1,000 residents of Crimea have died fighting for Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to an investigation by RFE/RL. Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula was ...