The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of planting mines in the Black Sea and said some of those munitions had to be defused off Turkey and Romania as risks to vital merchant shipping in the region grow.

The southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol has been under heavy fire from Russian forces since soon after the war began on Feb. 24.

Turkey’s defense ministry says military teams are working to disable a second naval mine that was detected floating off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. On Monday, the ministry said Underwater Defense Teams that were dispatched to the site off the coast of Igneada, near the border with Bulgaria, had managed to…

British defense officials say Russian forces have made no significant progress in the past 24 hours amid continuing supply problems and aggressive resistance from Ukrainian fighters

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The Black Sea port of Odesa is mining its beaches and rushing to defend itself from a Mariupol-style fate

The Ministry of Defence confirmed on Twitter that four fighter jets from the 3 (Fighter) Squadron are being sent to a military base on Romania's Black Sea coast

Turkey's military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had drifted in from the Black Sea, setting off a loud explosion north of Istanbul, days after Russia warned several of them had washed away from Ukrainian ports. Defense Minister Hulusi Akar described the object, first discovered by fishermen in the upper…

Odesa has meant romance and terror for as long as I can remember. Now another generation of refugees are fleeing terror — this time from war and occupation, writes Norman Swan.