Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometres of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm.

He said earlier that oil had washed up along tens of kilometers of Russia’s coastline. Videos geolocated by CNN showed a beach near Anapa, north of the city of Novorossiysk, has been flooded ...

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled by the wreck of two Russian tankers over the weekend, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warning of an “environmental ...