The fire on an oil tanker involved in the crash in the North Sea has finally gone out, several days after it collided with a container ship near the Humber Estuary. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The captain of MV Solong involved in the North Sea oil tanker crash is a Russian national, the shipping company revealed. The US-flagged MV Stena Immaculate was anchored off the Humber Estuary, 10 miles from Hull, when it burst into flames in a fireball after the Portuguese-flagged Solong rammed into it.

The captain of the cargo ship MV Solong, which rammed into a US oil tanker off the British coast, has been identified as a Russian national