All crew members of a Russian-flagged oil tanker damaged during a heavy storm wererescued on Monday, completing rescue efforts that were delayed overnight due to bad weather. Volgoneft 239 was damaged alongside Volgoneft 212,

Another tanker was also in distress after sustaining damage, Russian officials said. At least one person was killed.

A Russian tanker has sunk in the Kerch Strait during a violent Black Sea storm, killing one seafarer and causing an oil spill. Russian news agency Ria Novosti, citing official sources, said a second vessel in distress, the Volgoneft 239, was drifting and ran aground about 80 metres from the shore near the port of Taman.