A Russian official said a recent oil spill in the Black Sea was unprecedented and could have been avoided, highlighting the age of the vessels involved.

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 out of two storm-stricken tankers nearly three weeks ago in ...

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month.

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first detected,

Russian telegram channels monitoring interesting developments with the Russian Armed Forces are abuzzwith posts about the iconic, though shuttered, Kirov-class battlecruiser, the Admiral Nakhimov, undergoing its first sea trials since the leviathan was decommissioned by the Russian Navy in 1997.

Russia's only known submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, the Kilo-class Novorossiysk, was spotted leaving the region last week.

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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.

in Russia's southern Krasnodar region. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

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Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting on socioeconomic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.