According to the operational headquarters of Rusia's Krasnodar region, more than 1,200 birds were rescued and more than a thousand have already been transferred to rehabilitation centres and zoos. On 15 December, two Russian Volgoneft tankers carrying oil products sank in the Kerch Strait. Accordin»»»

Russian scientists have criticised the effort to clean up oil that has washed ashore from two oil tankers in the Black Sea, saying it lacks sufficient equipment. On 15 December, two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239 were hit by a storm in the Kerch Strait, with one sinkin»»»