Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

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.

Reuters

'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…

The Conversation

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.

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Reuters

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.

ABC News

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

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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.

Evening Standard

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Reuters

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"

Daily Mirror

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN warns Russian blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports may trigger global famine

Special rapporteur on right to food sees risk of deepening hunger crisis in countries such as Yemen and Ethiopia

The Guardian - UK

Mines, sandbags and roadblocks: Odesa fortifies for Russian war

Capturing Ukraine’s third-largest city would effectively cut the rest of the country off from the Black Sea.

Al Jazeera

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Panama says three ships hit in Black Sea since start of Ukraine war

Three Panamanian-flagged ships have been hit by Russian missiles in the Black Sea since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month, Panama's Maritime Authority said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Calls for ‘blue corridor’ to let stranded seafarers leave Ukraine war zone

Unions and shipping bodies urge safe passage from Black Sea and Sea of Azov after missile strikes and at least one death reported

Reuters

Ukraine says Russian shelling is still preventing aid delivery to Mariupol

Shelling by Russian forces was still preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Black Sea port city of Mariupol on Monday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.

The Independent UK

Russian naval forces have blockaded Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, say UK officials

Russian forces are also in the Sea of Azov, say officials

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Gradually Resuming Black Sea Wheat Exports

Russia is gradually resuming wheat exports from its Black Sea ports while navigation in the Azov Sea remains restricted, analysts said on Monday. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb.

Reuters

Over 2,500 Mariupol residents killed so far in war - Ukrainian presidential advisor

More than 2,500 residents of the Black Sea port city of Mariupol have been killed since Russian invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a televised interview on Monday.

Evening Standard

President Zelensky says Ukraine ‘must hold on’ as Russia blockades Black Sea coast

Russia has asked China for military equipment to use in its invasion of Ukraine, according to reports

ABC News

Ukraine war pushes grain prices up, poses 'moral conflict' for Australian farmers

Global wheat prices peaked at record levels last week, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine impacting grain exports from the Black Sea for the foreseeable future. But what does this mean for Australian farmers?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Doctor Fleeing One War Is Caught by Another

Syrian doctor Ossama Jari fled Damascus in 2014 to find peace with his Ukrainian wife in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv.

France 24

Ukraine’s Mykolaiv morgue struggles with rising number of corpses as shelling intensifies

The southern city of Mykolaiv has been under Russian fire for days as Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces try to gain control of cities on the border of the Black Sea, including the port of Odesa. But Ukrainian resistance has been fierce, with the death toll rising among soldiers and…

Reuters

UN to work on safe corridor for ships stranded by Ukraine conflict

The UN's shipping agency will seek to create a safe maritime corridor to enable merchant ships and their crews stuck in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to sail away without the risk of being hit, it said on Friday.

1 … 50 51 52 53

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Russian Defence Ministry

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.