Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into an oil spill off the country’s Black Sea coast.
RFE/RL: Russian prosecutors investigate oil spill near Black Sea beaches
A file photo taken on July 13, 2004, shows a view of the oil harbor in Novorossiysk, in the southern Russian seaport town in the Black Sea territory. Russian scientists and the World Wildlife Fund sounded the alarm on Aug. 11, 2021, over a huge oil spill in Russia's Black Sea, saying that more than 100 tonnes of oil have been released off the port city of Novorossiysk.
