The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

Algeria has wheat reserves sufficient for eight months, the state news agency quoted President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying during a televised interview late on Saturday. Algeria purchased about 120,000 tons of optional-origin milling wheat in an international tender on April 13. Algeria’s state grains agency OAIC will allow traders to…

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops faced off Saturday along a 300-mile battlefront in the country’s east, where Ukraine said it beat back numerous attacks but faced renewed shelling in the crippled city of Mariupol, the Black Sea port of Odesa and beyond.

The loss of Ukraine’s ports and most fertile stretch of land would further upend food prices, analysts say.

The captain was the commander of Caesar Kunikov, part of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

With its ground troops forced to pull back in Ukraine and regroup, and its Black Sea flagship sunk, Russia’s military failings are mounting

The Russian Navy's prized Black Sea flagship Moskva sank on Thursday after a blaze and an explosion Ukraine has claimed was caused by one of their missiles

Captain Alexander Chirva was the senior officer on landing ship Ceasar Kunikov, part of the Black Sea Fleet, when he reportedly died in the Ukrainian port of Berdyansk

Bulgaria has banned Russian-flagged ships from entering its Black Sea ports as part of expanded EU sanctions, the country’s Maritime Administration announced on its website on Sunday

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russia stepped up its attacks on numerous fronts in Ukraine on Saturday, moving deeper into the besieged southern port of Mariupol and striking a suburb of Kyiv as well as an area near the major western city of Lviv as Ukraine endured what many here believe is…