The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

Two dolphin pens were moved to the Sevastopol harbor base in February, concluded the US Naval Institute’s review

Russia launched two missile strikes and damaged a strategic bridge in Ukraine's Odesa region, state railways and local officials said on Wednesday, an event that could affect Ukrainian plans to expand exports through Danube ports.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co (NYSE:ADM) reported first-quarter FY22 sales growth of 25.2% year-on-year to $23.65 billion, beating the consensus of $17.91 billion. Revenues from Ag Services and Oilseeds rose 21.6% Y/Y, Carbohydrate Solutions increased 51.4%, and Nutrition climbed 23%. The gross profit increased 22.5% Y/Y to $1.9 billion with a margin of 8%. The Segment…

The second stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is underway. The scope of the war now appears to be establishing full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. If successful, this would mean Russian occupation of approximately one-third of Ukraine, cutting the country off from its Black Sea ports, including Odesa.

Algeria has wheat reserves sufficient for eight months, the state news agency quoted President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying during a televised interview late on Saturday. Algeria purchased about 120,000 tons of optional-origin milling wheat in an international tender on April 13. Algeria’s state grains agency OAIC will allow traders to…

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops faced off Saturday along a 300-mile battlefront in the country’s east, where Ukraine said it beat back numerous attacks but faced renewed shelling in the crippled city of Mariupol, the Black Sea port of Odesa and beyond.

It took the Russian military over a week to acknowledge that one serviceman died and two dozen others were missing after one of its flagship cruisers sank in the Black Sea, reportedly the result of a Ukrainian missiles strike

Ukraine news from April 23: Russian forces fire at least six cruise missiles at the strategic Black Sea port.

Russia begins long-awaited push to seize eastern Ukraine … fight to the death in Mariupol … and the cost of war in Russia

Investigative journalist calls defence ministry’s claims ‘highly improbable given the damage’

The loss of Ukraine’s ports and most fertile stretch of land would further upend food prices, analysts say.