The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

Vladimir Putin’s navy has been “largely neutralised” by Ukrainian coastal defences in its ability to control a swathe of the Black Sea, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday.

Reports of strikes come as Russia’s forces said to be gathering for final assault on Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk

Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley and more than 70 percent of its sunflower oil.

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70%…

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world.”

Macron favours land routes to Romania from Odesa whereas Ankara wants to use shipping lanes through Black Sea

Unprecedented food shortages could spark riots in dozens of countries as Black Sea blockade adds to pressures, says WFP chief

The Ukrainian navy has claimed that it struck a Russian boat carrying air defense systems to a strategic island in the Black Sea

Ukraine's armed forces said they struck the Russian navy's Vasiliy Bekh tugboat in the Black Sea with two Harpoon missiles on Friday, the first time Ukraine has said it hit a Russian vessel with the Western-supplied anti-ship rockets.