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David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, pleaded with the Russian president to end the blockade of Black Sea ports

Ukrainian forces destroyed parts of a Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video from Ukraine's military showed on Friday, as the Ukrainian defence minister predicted many weeks of grinding fighting ahead.

The Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports risks causing a global food crisis, given that Ukraine is one of the world’s top agricultural exporters. Analysts say this shows how Russia is weaponising food in its geopolitical games – but it’s a weapon the EU plans to neutralise by creating…

Can the rest of the world stay out of it when Russia's invasion of Ukraine starts to threaten food supplies? This week's bombing of the Black Sea resort of Odesa is a reminder that Moscow is blockading Ukraine's main port of export for wheat and other grains. The UN's World…

It is unclear what Alina Kabaeva will be doing today for her birthday, but this week Vladimir Putin flew to the Black Sea resort Sochi where Kabaeva is said to be living with rumours swirling

Ukraine shut down a pipeline Wednesday that carries Russian natural gas to homes and industries in Western Europe, while a Kremlin-installed official in a southern region seized by Russian troops said the area will ask Moscow to annex it. The talk of annexation in Kherson - and Russia's apparent willingness…

A remote island off Ukraine occupied by Russia on the first day of its invasion has, as Kyiv steps up efforts to retake it, become the focal point of what some defence officials believe may become a battle for control of the western Black Sea coast.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the Russian blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports threatens global food supplies.

Efforts to resupply Snake Island are allowing Ukrainian forces to inflict further losses on Russian troops