Vladimir Putin unleashed a series of Iskander-M ballistic missiles – weighing 8,400 pounds – on merchant ships transporting Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea. Three vessels have been targeted ...

Map of the Black Sea that shows shipping traffic a year before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a map of shipping traffic after the invasion where traffic stopped around Ukrainian ports. Source ...

Two cargo vessels have left a port near Odesa, Ukraine's deputy prime minister said on Friday - the third and fourth to transit from deep-water Ukrainian ports through the Black Sea since Russia ...

The sea is equally important to NATO, which Putin insists is trying to destroy Russia. Three member nations — Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria — border the Black Sea itself, with four important ports.

New satellite images show fresh development at Russia's newest Black Sea port—Ochamchire in the Kremlin-controlled Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia—as Moscow seeks new hubs from which to ...

A Black Sea storm halted loadings of crude and grains from key ports in Russia and Ukraine and left more than a million people across the region without power.

Russian grain ports are overflowing after two big harvests. That means any military escalation in the crucial Black Sea risks depriving the world of huge amounts of crops it’s counting on.

All three Ukrainian Black Sea ports have reopened to vessels for grain exports, despite Russia's threats to target ships heading to Ukrainian ports. Source: Bloomberg The first 10 vessels have ...

The success of Ukraine's new Black Sea export corridor has led to a sharp increase in the number of rail wagons heading to the ports of Odesa region, a senior railways official said on Monday.