Shoot down Russian missiles and drones, Ukraine urges its neighbours; hopes rise of US permission to fire long-range missiles into Russia. What we know on day 932See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageRussian forces have begun a significant counter-off…
Martin Vladimirov is director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy. Announcing its plans for what could be called TurkStream 2 on Aug. 21, Turkey finally dropped all pretenses. According to the countryโs energy minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, the state-owned gas monopoly BOTAล would now be able export around [โฆ]
The Mihail Koฤalniceanu Military Base in Romania, built during the communist era on the Black Sea opposite Crimea, has undergone a transformation to strengthen NATO’s capabilities in the east of the continent.
The mighty 650-kilometre Danube River that snakes throughout Europe from the Black Forest to the Black Sea is receding at some of its banks.
This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war, read our full report:Russian authorities scramble to quell Ukraineโs week-long Kursk incursionRomaniaโs navy has carried out a controlled explosion of a mine that had drifted to it…
The genuine Roman sarcophagus was being used as decoration at a resort near Varna in the Black Sea.
Mayor of Sofia suburb is exasperated by delays and failures on the part of the Bulgarian state administration to remove the 1.6-meter reptile.
Kerch bridge defences also hit in wave of attacks; Zelenskiy stands beside F-16 fighter jets, officially announcing their arrival. What we know on day 894See all our Ukraine war coverageUkraine sank a Russian submarine in Crimea, hit a Russian airfield…
Ukraine’s military said on Saturday that a missile strike had sunk a Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine in Russian-occupied Crime.
The “Rostov-on-Don” vessel was earlier damaged by Ukrainian missiles in September, Kyiv’s military says.
Crimea under missile and drone attack; Estonia to clamp down on sanctions evasion via its Russian border. What we know on day 891The Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, has attended in Turkey the launch of the Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi, an anti-submarine…
Turkey โmust be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine,” the president said.
Ukraineโs foreign minister calls on Hong Kong to prevent Russia from using region to circumvent sanctions; drone debris lands in Romania. What we know on day 884The Pentagon has found $2bn worth of additional errors in its calculations for ammunition, …
Recent attacks in the Black Sea have forced the Russian navy to rebase its ships elsewhere, says Ukrainian navy; multiple Russian strikes on Kharkiv damage Swiss NGO office. What we know on day 883See all our Ukraine war coverage Continue reading…
Russia on Sunday said two US bomber planes had approached its border in the Arctic and that it had scrambled fighter jets to make them turn away. Moscow has previously accused the United States of making reconnaissance drone flights over neutral water…
Kyiv is doing a good job of balancing recruitment, training and procurement, Gen. Christopher Cavoli said.
Ukraine seized a foreign cargo ship on the Danube River and detained the captain on suspicion of helping Moscow export Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Crimea, officials said on Thursday (11 July).
The vessel under flag of Cameroon is suspected of visiting Sevastopol in November 2023 and May of this year.
Trump or not in the White House, NATO has to embrace some hard realities to survive another five โ much less 75 โ years.
The Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet has been forced to rebase nearly all its combat-ready warships from occupied Crimea to other locations, and its main naval hub is becoming ineffectual because of attacks by Kyiv, Ukraine’s navy chief said.
Two bodies recovered from rubble of southern house while collision of oil truck and minibus in western Rivne region leaves single survivor. What we know on day 865See all our Ukraine war coverage Russian shelling killed three civilians in Ukraineโs sou…
America has protected Europe with is nuclear umbrella for more than 70 years. In the era of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the continent is quietly debating a different nuclear future.
Ukrainian military intelligence has been using the satellite to target Russian troops, weapons and logistics.
Infant among six injured, with at least one dead and more trapped in building in central Ukraine; 10 Ukrainian civilians freed from Russia and Belarus jails in Vatican-mediated deal. What we know on day 857See all our Ukraine war coverageA Russian miss…
Forecast dryness in the Black Sea region’s breadbasket is likely to stunt sunflower and corn yields, while heavy rain in the US after near-record temperatures threatens to take a toll on crops, squeezing world supplies and pushing prices higher.
Itโs important to understand why the Georgian people take to the streets any time their Euro-Atlantic path is put into doubt.
Three dead and dozens more injured after Kharkiv attack; Rishi Sunak says Nigel Farageโs Ukraine comments play โinto Putinโs hands. What we know on day 851See all our Ukraine war coverageRussian guided bombs shattered an apartment building in Ukraineโs…
Ukraine will not talk to Moscow directly, but hopes Putin’s friends will help to push him toward peace.
The band said performing at a state-owned arena could be seen as endorsing a government attack on human rightsBritish band Massive Attack have pulled out of a concert in Georgiaโs capital, Tbilisi, in protest against the governmentโs โattack on basic h…
As Europe prepares itself for a long conflict โ frozen or not โ on the shores of the Black Sea, it should commit to optimising the Danube River transport corridor to ensure the Black Sea remains free and open, write Kaush Arha, Ben Hodges, and George S…
In Estonia, Latvia and Poland, residents near the Russian border say the war has ruined their livelihoods and shattered their sense of safety.
Moscow’s and Beijing’s diplomats are “threatening” countries to convince them not to attend June 15-16 meeting, Ukraine leader says.
Kyiv is making it increasingly difficult for Russia to keep the peninsula supplied.
A parliamentary employeeโs home and offices raided amid accusations they were โpaid to promote Russian propagandaโBelgiumโs federal prosecutorโs office has said that police carried out searches at the residence of an employee of the European parliament…
Small group of creatives are choosing to stay working in Ukrainian city despite continuous threat from warBehind a gate presided over by a taciturn doorman, on the shore of the Black Sea in Odesa, is a tumbledown ship repair yard. It is one of many ind…
Ukrainian servicemen operating a howitzer in Kharkiv region near the Russian border work around the clock to stop an incursion by Moscow’s troops, and they are finally getting the shells to do it.
Amid heavy Russian attacks on Kharkiv, the West must send long-distance missiles, said Annalena Baerbock.
Russia intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones overnight in the south of the country and over annexed Crimea and the Black Sea, Moscow’s defence ministry said on Friday.
The Neptun Deep project to produce natural gas offshore at the Black Sea is the key to reducing dependence on gas imports and strengthening the EUโs energy security.
Autocrats see restraint and caution as signs of weakness; they see strength in resolve.
Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Dnipro regions and the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed at least two civilians, set a food factory ablaze and damaged other infrastructure, homes and commercial buildings on Saturday (4 May), regional officia…
Russian strikes on Kharkiv and Dnipro provinces kill at least two while three injured in Odesa; Zelenskiy says jet downed over Donetsk region. What we know on day 802See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageRussian attacks on Ukraineโs Kharkiv and Dnipro…
Attacks on Moscowโs warships have helped to establish an export corridor that could boost Kyivโs war effort
Four-year-old child and pregnant woman among those in a serious condition after strike on seafront park in Black Sea port cityThis live blog has been paused. For the latest coverage on Russiaโs war in Ukraine, please visit our dedicated page.To keep u…
A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday (29 April) killed at least five people and injured 32, local officials said.
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Warsaw, April 29, 2024 (AFP) – Polish farmers have lifted blockades at border crossings with Ukraine, officials said Monday, ending a two-month protest over farm imports from the war-torn neighbouring country.Farmers had blocked border crossings with U…
The transfer of Army Tactical Missile Systems with a nearly 200-mile range ends a yearslong drama between Washington and Kyiv.
Romanian lawmakers on Monday approved President Klaus Iohannis’ proposal for the country to take part in the Turkish initiative to clear the Black Sea of mines.
Ukrainian president says priorities are air-defence systems and long-range missiles. What we know on day 789Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the US Senate to rapidly ratify the long-delayed military aid package passed by Congress over the …
US House of Representatives moves closer to passing Ukraine aid; bureaucracy delays ยฃ500m in foreign assistance channelled through UK Ministry of Defence. What we know on day 787See all our Ukraine war coverageRussia came under attack from Ukrainian dr…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hit back at Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Second Black Sea Security Conference in Sofia on Monday, challenging his prediction that Ukraine’s neighbours would be disunited while asserting strong US support …
Russia and Ukraine negotiated for two months with Turkey on a deal to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black Sea and reached agreement on a text that was to be announced by Ankara but Kyiv suddenly pulled out, four people familiar with the matter s…
Reuters exclusively reported that Russia and Ukraine negotiated for two months with Turkey on a deal to ensure the safety [โฆ]
The post Russia-Ukraine Black Sea shipping deal was almost reached last month appeared first on Reuters News Agency.
The survival of ancient dialects matters not just for scholarship, but because of the wisdom they convey about how to live with natureThe launch of a โlast chanceโ crowdsourcing tool to record a vanishing Greek dialect drew attention back this week to …
Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand peopleAn endangered form of Greek that is spoken by only a few thousand people in remote mountain villages of northern Turkey has been d…
Nato plan seen as a way to โTrump-proofโ aid for Kyiv; Zelenskiy lowers conscription age to 25. What we know on day 770See all our Ukraine war coverageA Ukrainian drone struck the primary unit of the third-largest Russian oil refinery in the Tatarstan …
Increasing exports to the EU are a lifeline for Turkey, but analysts fear it could be the Kremlin cashing in.
Russia and Ukraine claimed to have downed each other’s drones over the Black Sea on Monday (1 April), with both sides apparently devoting increasing attention to developing and using unmanned aircraft in their more than two-year-old war.
US House speaker hints a vote could happen after Easter recess, following โimportant innovationsโ to aid package. What we know on day 769See all our Ukraine coverageRussia and Ukraine claimed to have downed each otherโs drones over the Black Sea on Mon…
When the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisisWhen Ukraineโs Antarctic research and supply vessel Noosfera left Odesa on its maiden voyage on 28 January 2022, it passed Russian…
Poland warns Russian missiles coming too close may be shot down; how Ukraine has ramped up making its own weapons. What we know on day 763See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading…
EU says 500,000 shells delivered, the rest by end of year; โbillionsโ to fix energy systems damaged by Russian attacks. What we know on day 762See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageThe Russian ambassador ignored a summons to appear at Polandโs foreign…
The Ukrainian military said it hit two large Russian landing ships in attacks on the annexed Crimean peninsula early on Sunday (24 March), as well as a communications centre and other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea.
With the decision to expand NATO’s military base near the strategic Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania will have stronger security guarantees, a representative of the Romanian Defence Ministry told Euractiv on Tuesday (19 March).
Russian president tells Red Square crowd Crimea is โpride of Russiaโ on 10th anniversary of annexation. What we know on day 755President Vladimir Putin hailed the โreturnโ to Russia of annexed Ukrainian territories, after winning an election slammed as…
A Russian ballistic missile attack struck a residential area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa on Friday (15 March), killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 70, in Moscow’s deadliest attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa has been hit by a Russian missile attack that killed at least 20 people and injured more than 75. The attack on civilian infrastructure was the deadliest in weeks after Moscow recently increased its strikes on the city…
More than 75 injured in Black Sea city during deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilian area in weeksUkraine war โ live updatesA Russian ballistic missile attack has killed at least 20 people and injured more than 75 in the Black Sea city of Odesa, Ukrain…
Fourteen people die as Kremlin’s forces intensify shelling of key Black Sea port city.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said his country is ‘technically’ ready for a nuclear war, in a warning to the west amid growing tensions over the war in Ukraine. Speaking ahead of Russia’s election, Putin also warned that the presence of foreign …
Apparent sacking of Adm Nikolai Yevmenov highlights fallout over Kyivโs ability to sink Russian warshipsUkraine war โ live updatesThe Kremlin has fired its top naval commander after a series of spectacular attacks by Ukraine on Russiaโs Black Sea fleet…
Andrzej Duda and Donald Tusk are coming to the White House in an โabsolutely unique sign of political unity.โ
The BBC meets the drone operators helping to resist Russia’s attempts to dominate the Black Sea.
The BBC meets the drone operators helping to resist Russia’s attempts to dominate the Black Sea.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hosted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on Friday for talks on the course of the Ukraine-Russia war, the defunct Black Sea grain deal, and increased defence industry cooperation, the two sides said. Erdogan sai…
Turkey is ready to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia to end the war, President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan said on Friday (8 March) after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul.
Ukrainian steel and iron firms need EU buyers more than ever. But a looming EU tax in 2026 will cost them millions if rapid changes aren’t made.
A Russian missile missed Ukraine’s president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres on Wednesday (6 March) when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa.
Stop laughing at the back.
French president says he does not want escalation but allies cannot โlook away and let things run their courseโ โ what we know on day 742See all our coverage of the war in UkraineEmmanuel Macron has urged Ukraineโs allies not to be โcowardsโ in support…
Kyiv says the Sergei Kotov patrol ship sunk in the Black Sea after a sea drone attack.
Court in The Hague targets Moscow’s military bosses over bombardment of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Kyiv says the Sergei Kotov patrol ship sunk in the Black Sea after a sea drone attack.
Sinking of warship near Kerch strait would deal further blow to Moscowโs naval power and its control over Black SeaUkraine has sunk a Russian warship near the Kerch strait in occupied Crimea in a further blow to Moscowโs naval power and its control ove…
Ukrainian sea drones damaged a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday (5 March).
Netherlands signs security pact with Kyiv; drone attack in occupied Kherson kills three; anti-war chants at Alexei Navalny funeral in MoscowSee all our Ukraine war coverageThe Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, signed a security deal with Ukraine in Kha…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday (26 February) that without new US military aid his country would be unable to defend a Black Sea shipping corridor that has allowed Kyiv to export millions of tons of grain to global markets.
Annalena Baerbock’s trip to southern Ukraine is interrupted.
‘The situation is so dynamic that at the moment commitment [from partners] does not constitute delivery,’ Ukraine Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said.
Britain and the EU have committed more funding to Ukraine, and we believe it is in the interest of America โ and all our allies โ to do the same.
Stuck in a โgrin & bear period itโ period, the countryโs now facing a Russia thatโs organized for protracted war and a West that isnโt.
Kyiv needs arms and ammunition from its allies if it is to stave off Russian attacks over the coming months.
Russian forces threatened to shoot down a French surveillance aircraft patrolling in international airspace over the Black Sea, a signal of increasingly aggressive behavior from Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine struggles to make headway, French defen…
Armed Forces Minister Sรฉbastien Lecornu said itโs a bid to โintimidateโ France.
Grain and oilseed exports from Ukraine have returned to the same levels as in March 2023, when the UN initiative was securing food trade through the Black Sea corridor, according to data from the International Grain Council (IGC).
Attendees of the Munich Security Conference were worried about Ukraineโs prospects against Russia and American commitment to Kyiv.
Two years after the assault on Kyiv, itโs getting harder to stay optimistic.
Without him, Putin’s transition to total political invulnerability seems complete.
A bust-up with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov is on the cards โ but Britain’s top diplomat has allies in his sights too.
