The video shows a beach in Sevastopol, Crimea, which was struck by a series of explosions on June 23. The footage, captured by a security camera, shows hundreds of people beginning to run away ...

(Reuters) - Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from ... foul-smelling fuel oil from sandy beaches in and around Anapa, a summer resort.

All beaches on Crimea's southern coast have reopened to the public after the waters were deemed safe by the authorities following a sewage spill, Yalta administration head Yanina Pavlenko said.

President Vladimir Putin has called it an “ecological disaster” and hundreds of volunteers have been deployed to scoop up contaminated soil from beaches in Crimea and along Russia’s southern ...