The Latest Breaking News from Black Sea

Putin says the deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain will not be restored until the West lifts embargo on Russia.

Turkish and Russian leaders hold talks as Moscow continues to attack Ukrainian grain-exporting ports

Monday’s meeting in Sochi comes amid international efforts to patch up the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin in a bid to persuade the Russian leader to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow broke off from in July

Two cargo vessels have left Ukraine despite Russian threats and are in the Black Sea, maritime officials said Saturday

Ukraine’s foreign minister also says critics of the offensive’s slow progress should ‘shut up’

Beaches on the Black Sea that closed after Russia's invasion have reopened. People say swimming and sunbathing are ways to find a taste of normal life, even while under threat from Moscow.

Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military commander of the Wagner Group, was buried Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery near Moscow after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian counterpart Sergei…

Turkey has said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia "soon" for talks with Vladimir Putin on reviving a Black Sea grain deal that could be used as a springboard for broader peace negotiations with Ukraine.