The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea warned Wednesday there was a "high risk" the peninsula would suffer severe environmental damage from an oil spill in the Black Sea.
The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.
Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency ... Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the oilspill an "ecological disaster." The Kerch Strait ...