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Turkey Defuses Mine after Russia Warns of Strays from Ukraine Ports

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…

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For Odesa, there's echoes of troubled past as Russian threat moves closer

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.

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Turkey defuses mine after Russia warns of strays from Ukraine ports

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What's next for Ukraine as the siege goes on?

Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of them except Mariupol, the big port on the Black Sea that has become the Ukrainian "Stalingrad". Indeed, Ukrainian counter-attacks are…

Bangkok Post

VIDEO: Russian Warship Destroyed In Black Sea As Ukraine Continues Holding Off Russian Forces

NATO summit focuses on “supporting the brave people of Ukraine” and bringing an end to “this brutal war.”

Zenger

Nato ‘working on’ providing anti-ship missiles to Ukraine, US says

It comes amid concerns that Russia will launch amphibious assaults along the Black Sea coast

The Independent UK

Egypt in Talks with Argentina, India and US on Wheat Imports

Egypt is in talks with Argentina, India, France and the United States for future wheat imports but is in no rush to buy at the moment, the supply minister said on Thursday. Egypt, one of the world's biggest wheat importers, is looking for alternatives to Black Sea grain exports which…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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‘We just want to stay alive’: Sheltering from Russian bombs in Odesa’s catacombs

Russian forces bombed residential areas in their first attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday. Ukraine fears the city could be the next target of Russia’s offensive in the south. Its inhabitants have found the perfect refuge from Russian bombs – the city's catacombs.

France 24

VIDEO: Russian Navy Ship Fires Volley Of Missiles At Ukrainian Positions

Kalibr guided missiles depicted flying over Black Sea skies as Russia seemingly alters war strategy.

Zenger

Ukraine latest updates: NATO will ‘respond’ to chemical weapons

Ukraine-Russia news from March 24: US President Joe Biden warns Russia against using chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Vladimir Putin desperately wants to claim the 'pearl of the Black Sea' but Odesa has become a fortress

As Russia's troops approach, the strategically important port city of Odesa is fortifying itself from the inside out, with sandbags lined on its streets and a population devoted to the war effort.

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Holocaust survivor Boris Romanchenko is killed in his Kharkiv apartment after it is shot and burns down

A 96-year-old man who had been forced to work underground and on the V-2 rocket by Nazis dies in his home as it is fired upon during a Russian attack, while homes in the Black Sea port city of Odesa are also hit by shelling from the invading forces.

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Night Train to Safety: One Ukrainian Family’s Odyssey

Ludmila Lichko wearily cradles her nine-year old son Ivan aboard a crowded train as it pulls out of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa just before midnight and heads south towards the Romanian border, moving away from the war engulfing their country. Fleeing with Ivan and her other son, 16-year-old…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Night train to safety: one Ukrainian family's odyssey

Ludmila Lichko wearily cradles her nine-year old son Ivan aboard a crowded train as it pulls out of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa just before midnight and heads south towards the Romanian border, moving away from the war engulfing their country.

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'A central European miracle': why the city of Lviv is so important for Ukraine

Concerns are mounting that Russian invading forces are seeking to push into western Ukraine, after the region of Lviv was subjected to missile strikes fired from the Black Sea on March 18. Lviv lies 550km west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv and its residents have been preparing for war for…

Reuters

Egyptian prime minister sets fixed price for unsubsidised bread

Egypt has set a fixed price for unsubsidised bread in an effort to counter rising food prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine closed off access to lower-priced Black Sea wheat.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine says it will never surrender its cities as Odesa reports airstrikes on flats

Russia accused of striking residential areas in what would be first attack on Black Sea port

Reuters

Ukraine's Odesa accuses Russia of attacking city outskirts for the first time

Authorities in Odesa accused Russian forces of carrying out a strike on residential buildings in the outskirts of the Ukrainian city early on Monday, the first such attack on the Black Sea port city.

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Four Corners spoke to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk in Ukraine's heavily fortified HQ. Here's what she says

In an Australian exclusive, ABC's Four Corners interviews Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister inside President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's heavily fortified compound in Kyiv.

Daily Mirror

Ukraine civilians 'being forcibly abducted and taken to Russia' claims city officials

Mariupal officials said thousands of people been 'forcibly deported' to Russia as they fight to protect their homeland where shelling continues to rain down on its population

Evening Standard

Russian naval commander, 51, ‘shot dead near Mariupol’

Ukraine has claimed that its forces have shot dead the deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in another significant blow to Vladimir Putin.

Daily Mirror

Russia 'launches second hypersonic missile' so powerful it's dubbed 'The Sizzler'

The Russian Defence Ministry said the missile was launched from ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea and directed towards Ukrainian military infrastructure

Reuters

Russia strikes Ukraine with cruise missiles from Black Sea and Caspian Sea

Russia struck Ukraine on Sunday with cruise missiles from ships in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, the Interfax news agency reported.

Daily Mirror

Putin 'panicking' over revolution in Moscow as he battles to control Ukraine, PM says

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said failure to support Ukraine now would result in a "new age of intimidation across eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea"

Asharq Al-Awsat

Defiant Odessa Is Seen Vulnerable to Russian Sea Assault

Black and white newsreel from 1941 shows residents of Odessa, then a Soviet city, building barricades with cobblestones, while the streets are lined with sandbag defenses and "hedgehog" anti-tank barriers as German and Romanian forces approach. Fast forward 81 years, and similar scenes are playing out in the picturesque Black…

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