The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

A storm in the Black Sea damaged buildings and knocked down power lines, leaving more than half a million people without power in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine, Russian state media and Ukraine's energy ministry said

Increasing numbers of ships are streaming toward Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and heading out loaded with grain, metals and other cargo despite the threat of attack and explosive mines

As the attention of the world centres on the war in Gaza, many commentators believe that the war in Ukraine is becoming a stalemate. To date, Ukraine’s highly anticipated summer counteroffensive has not resulted in any substantial territorial gain, and Russia has not made any progress either.

Turkey's interior minister says severe storms have delayed a search-and-rescue operation for 12 crew members of a cargo ship that sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast

Turkey's interior minister says severe storms have delayed a search-and-rescue operation for 12 crew members of a cargo ship that sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast

Blackouts as Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy systems restart; Ukraine shipping out millions of tonnes of grain via Black Sea corridor

A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa has hit a Liberian-flagged freighter, killing a port worker and wounding another, as well as three citizens of the Philippines, crew members on the ship

More feared dead in attack on Odesa’s Pivdennyi port

Top Kyiv military official recently said Crimea would be subject to renewed aerial bombardment

Ukraine calls on Unesco to condemn strike on art museum; large group of mercenaries training with special forces, Chechen leader says

As Russia bombarded the Black Sea and reduced regions to rubble, Ukraine has made gains on two fronts