Cleanup begins off Crimea shore after oil spill from Russian ships

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea: Efforts to clean up the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea intensified a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled from two Russian tankers damaged during a storm.

Russian media reported that more than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, worked to rescue wildlife and clean oil-contaminated shorelines. By December 22 afternoon, more than 12,000 tons of polluted soi