The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

Turkish and Russian leaders hold talks as Moscow continues to attack Ukrainian grain-exporting ports

The presidents of Russia and Turkey are meeting on Monday, with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeking to persuade Russia to revive an agreement that allowed Ukraine to export grain and other commodities from three Black Sea ports despite the war

Russian president says the Black Sea grain deal will not be restored until restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products are lifted

Defense minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced this week with Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker. Umerov has served as head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine since September 2022.

Phone call between leaders of Ukraine and France comes on eve of summit between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over Black Sea grain deal

Monday’s meeting in Sochi comes amid international efforts to patch up the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin in a bid to persuade the Russian leader to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow broke off from in July

Two cargo vessels have left Ukraine despite Russian threats and are in the Black Sea, maritime officials said Saturday

Ukraine’s foreign minister also says critics of the offensive’s slow progress should ‘shut up’

Beaches on the Black Sea that closed after Russia's invasion have reopened. People say swimming and sunbathing are ways to find a taste of normal life, even while under threat from Moscow.

Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military commander of the Wagner Group, was buried Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery near Moscow after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian counterpart Sergei…