Large numbers of dead dolphins have washed up on the shores and banks of the Black Sea since two Russian oil tankers collided in the Kerch Strait last month.

Growing numbers of dead dolphins are washing up on shore following the collision of two Russian oil tankers in the Kerch Strait between the Black and Azov Seas, according to ecologists. The deaths of 32 of the animals are believed to be linked to last month's spillage of heavy oil in the sea,

The US is planning to impose further sanctions on tankers, carrying Russian crude oil in order to hinder Moscow’s war efforts against Ukraine.

Oil from two Russian tankers, which sank and ran aground in the Kerch Strait after a storm in December, has spread 250 kilometres to reach the coast of Sevastopol in Crimea, Moscow-installed

The Eagle S – a tanker ship carrying Russian oil and suspected of severing the Estlink 2 power cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia – was reportedly brimming with spy equipment.

An animal rescue group said 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been recorded since the oil spill.

Thirty-two dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, which separates the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula from Russia’s southern Krasnodar region,

An oil spill in the Black Sea is believed to have resulted in the death of over 30 cetaceans, including several members of an endangered subspecies. The spill, which occurred after two Russian oil tankers were damaged in a storm in mid-December 2024,