March 27, 2025 12:16 am
Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy said that US side informed him the ceasefire deal on Black Sea would be effective as soon as they were announced, but the Kremlin put out its condition thereafter.
March 25, 2025 9:20 pm
Both Russia and Ukraine have also agreed to implement measures to halt strikes on energy infrastructure and will continue working toward a lasting peace.
January 05, 2025 1:55 am
The Kerch Strait runs between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and separates Crimea's Kerch Peninsula from Russia's Krasnodar region.
March 01, 2024 10:50 pm
The attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis have disrupted global shipping since November and forced firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa.
August 16, 2023 5:32 pm
Ukraine's agricultural exports, like those of Russia, are also crucial for world supplies of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other food that developing nations rely on.
August 09, 2023 8:44 am
Bordered by Ukraine, Russia and three NATO countries, the Black Sea has become an increasingly dangerous cauldron of military and geopolitical tensions.
August 04, 2023 3:04 pm
Ukrainian naval drones attack Russian base, damaging a warship; tensions rise in Black sea amid grains export dispute.
June 11, 2023 7:06 pm
At the time of the attack, a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft was in the central area of the Black Sea, the defence ministry said.
May 17, 2023 9:58 pm
The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea deal for an initial 120 days in July last year to help tackle a global food crisis that has been aggravated by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, one of the world's leading grain exporters.
March 15, 2023 11:13 am
The incident comes amid soaring Russian-US tensions over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
August 20, 2015 2:04 pm
President Vladimir Putin plunged into the Black Sea to see the wreckage of a sunk ancient merchant ship.