Russian Emergencies Ministry officials have launched an urgent mission to rescue 200 people trapped on a sheet of frozen ice.

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Russia's emergency services said on Wednesday that it had rescued all 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific. Earlier ...

A man has been rescued after being stuck out at sea for two months on a tiny inflatable boat with two relatives who both died. The Russian man became lost in the stormy Sea of Okhotsk in a boat ...

The 139 fishermen became stranded when a 10-meter (32 feet) crack formed an ice floe that broke away from the island of Sakhalin and floated into the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan ...

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Hundreds of ice fishing enthusiasts were trapped on drifting ice floes in Russia’s Far Eastern Sea of Okhotsk off the coast ...

MOSCOW--Two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers conducted a routine flight over the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, state-run TASS news agency reported on Thursday, citing the Russian Defense ...

On Wednesday, 139 fishermen were rescued from an ice floe in the Sea of Okhotsk floating between Japan and Russia. According to CNN, the men became stranded after a crack measuring about 32 feet ...

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...