This summer Ukrainians are thumbing their noses at Putin by sunbathing and swimming on Black Sea ... on this beach surrounded by sunbathers and families running into the waves and people doing ...

Now this stretch of Black Sea coast is an ... vessels started laying explosive sea mines around the port — the beaches were closed. Warning signs urged people to keep their distance.

It’s been roughly two weeks since a storm in the Kerch Strait wrecked two oil tankers, killing one crewman and leaking thousands of metric tons of oil into the Black Sea. Since that disaster on ...

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled ... Videos geolocated by CNN showed a beach near Anapa, north of the city of Novorossiysk, has been flooded with oil.

On the home front, Ukrainians are showing resistance in part by heading back to the beach ... Black Sea is a war zone. Russian ships and aircraft regularly fire missiles that hit Odessa. But ...