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Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank.
The vessels were in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, when they issued distress signals. ... the TASS news agency quoted Alexei ...
The 19km (12 mile) bridge, also known as the Crimea Bridge or the Kerch Strait Bridge, is the only direct land link between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
2023 Crimean Bridge explosion was an event during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 17 July 2023, at approximately 3:04 a.m. and 3:20 a.m. EEST, when the Ukrainian Navy attacked the Crimean Bridge, [1] with two suicide sea drones, damaging a span of the road bridge. [2] The explosions killed two civilians and injured one.
Ukraine accused Russia at an international court on Monday of flouting sea law by trying to keep the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea under its sole control. Kyiv began ...
2022 Crimean Bridge explosion was an event during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 8 October 2022, at 6:07 a.m., when a fire broke out on the Crimean Bridge as a result of an explosion of a bomb loaded onto a truck, which occurred on the road bridge, on the westbound vehicle lanes running from Russia to Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Volgoneft-139 was carrying 4,800 tonnes of fuel oil when she anchored in the Kerch Strait in a storm in November 2007. [1] [2] She split in two, spilling from 1,300 to 1,600 tonnes of oil, resulting in "tens of kilometres" of pollution on both sides of the Kerch Strait. [1] [2] [3] 13 crew members were rescued, and four other ships sank in the ...
A huge explosion on a strategically important bridge linking Russia and the Crimea peninsula brought down sections of road and caused train wagons to catch fire.