Context:
Heavy environmental damage due to oil floods in the Black Sea due to a storm when two tankers collided near Crimea.
Key Highlights:
- The leak occurred on December 15 in the Kerch Strait between Russia and the Crimean peninsula.
Black Sea
- The Black Sea is a marginal Mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
- Bordered by
- Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
- Rivers
- The main rivers draining into it are the Danube, Dnieper and Dniester.
- Area
- Covers 436,400 km2 (168,500 sq mi) with a maximum depth of 2,212 m and a volume of 547,000 km3.
- Longest east-west extent about 1,175 km (730 mi).
Kerch Strait
The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia’s Krasnodar Krai in the east.
