The Latest Breaking News from Odesa

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's strike as "spitting in the face" of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the grain export agreements.

The U.S. ambassador to Kyiv said that Moscow should be held to account for what she said was an "outrageous" Russian strike on the port city of Odesa on Saturday.

Russian cruise missiles hit villages around the southern Ukraine port city of Odesa overnight, in the latest attack that local authorities say aim to strike fear into the civilian population

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had not seen any desire from Kyiv to fulfil what he described as a preliminary peace deal agreed to in March to end the war in Ukraine, where Russian bombardment continued.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for mediating talks on the export of grain from Ukraine, saying there was some progress. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Putin that Tehran and Moscow need to stay vigilant against "Western deception", calling for long-term cooperation…

"YOU’RE a journalist? Ahhh, you must come on my bus, no problem!”

Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of using a captured nuclear power plant as a place to store and launch weapons. As Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian cities, air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv on Saturday. Overnight explosions made for a tense night in Ukraine, where cities have recently come…

Russian strike kills 23 in Vinnytsia, grain ships stuck in the Black Sea and the deadly danger of sea mines

A Russian military delegation arrived in Istanbul on Wednesday to meet their Ukrainian and Turkish counterparts and U.N. officials for talks on resuming exports of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea port of Odesa as a global food crisis worsens.