The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

The stoppage of grain exports out of Ukraine was confirmed on Monday as the country said all ports will be closed until the end of the Russian invasion, though there is a chance that supplies for the next season out of both Ukraine and Russia could also be in jeopardy…

As bad as the Ukraine war is so far, an international agreement signed in 1936 is preventing it from getting even worse.

Turkey has warned both Black Sea and non-Black Sea countries not to pass warships through its Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was reported as saying on Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted on Monday his country “won’t give up” on its relations with either Russia or Ukraine, but says it will implement an international convention that allows Turkey to shut down the straits at the entrance of the Black Sea to the warships of “belligerent countries.”…

The turmoil unleashed in commodity markets by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine worsened on Monday as LNG orders were paused, finance for trade in raw materials dried up and Black Sea wheat sales froze.

The group of 13 on Snake Island in the Black Sea were believed dead after confronting a Russian warship, but the Ukrainian Navy has said in a statement they are alive

Turkey's pledge to block some Russian warships from passing through its waters to the Black Sea during the Ukraine crisis could help repair its ties with NATO, even as it risks reprisals from Moscow.

Turkey on Sunday requested from Russia and Ukraine a humanitarian truce that would allow Ankara and other countries to evacuate their citizens from Ukrainian combat zones. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke by phone Sunday with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba on the latest developments in…

Ukranian border guards thought to have been killed while defending a tiny island in the Black Sea from Russian troops may still be alive, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine says.