A Russian missile damaged a Liberia-flagged civilian vessel entering a Black Sea port in Odesa region, killing one and injuring four people, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday (8 November).
Ukraine said on Wednesday (1 November) Russian warplanes had dropped “explosive objects” into the likely paths of civilian vessels in the Black Sea three times in the last 24 hours, but that its fledgling shipping corridor was still operating.
Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announced their own restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports on Friday (15 September) after the European Commission decided not to extend its ban on imports into Ukraine’s five EU neighbours.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday (14 September) he was grateful to Bulgaria for not extending restrictions on Ukrainian grain exports from 15 Septะตmber.
China and Europe should “unite and co-operate” against global uncertainties, Premier Li Qiang told the European Commission chief on the sidelines of the annual G20 summit in New Delhi.
Ukraine has started exporting grain via Croatian seaports, aiming to broaden its export routes while its Black Sea ports are blocked, a senior Ukrainian official said on Thursday (7 September).
Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan said after talks with Vladimir Putin on 4 September that it would soon be possible to reviveย the grain dealย that the United Nations says helped to ease aย food crisisย by getting Ukrainian grain to market.
President Vladimir Putin told Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan on Monday (4 September) that Russia was open to discussions about the Black Sea grain deal, an agreement that helped get Ukraine’s grain to market and thus ease a global food crisis.
Russia’s Monday (4 September) drone attack on a major Ukraine grain exporting port damaged warehouses and set buildings on fire, Ukraine said, hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan, were due to …
Two cargo vessels have left a port near Odesa, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said on 1 September – the third and fourth from Ukrainian ports through the Black Sea since Russia withdrew from the deal for passage of grain ships.
United Nations Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres said on 31 August that he had sent Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “a set of concrete proposals” aimed at reviving a deal that allowed the safe export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea.
The US is working with Romania and Moldova to increase Ukraine’s grain exports via the Danube river as it explores alternative routes after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a US official said on 30 August.
Turkey said Monday that President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan will “soon” visit Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin on reviving a Black Sea grain deal that could be used as a springboard for broader Ukraine peace negotiations.
A senior European Union official urged Russia on Saturday (26 August) to renew a deal to allow the safe export of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea ports, after Russia quit the agreement last month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to hold talks in person with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan soon, the Kremlin said on Friday (25 August), as Ankara attempts to persuade Moscow to return to the Black Sea grain deal.
Ukraine said Russia had attacked its grain storage facilities overnight, but a container ship left the Black Sea port of Odesa on Wednesday (16 August) despite Moscow’s threat to target shipping after it abandoned an export deal.
A Russian warship on Sunday (13 August) fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea, the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark UN-brokered grain deal last month.
Ukraine announced a “humanitarian corridor” in the Black Sea to release cargo ships trapped in its ports since the outbreak of war, a new test of Russia’s de facto blockade since Moscow abandoned a deal last month to let Kyiv export grain.
Russia’s lack of ships and Western grain traders’ shrinking appetite for business with Moscow are adding to rising costs of moving Russian wheat, at a time when the war in Ukraine has spilled perilously close to vital Black Sea supply routes.
Ukraine and Poland called in the ambassadors from each other’s countries on 1 August as a dispute escalated after a foreign policy adviser to Poland’s president said Kyiv should show more appreciation for Warsaw’s support in its war with Russia.
The EU has no money in the budget and no clear way to help finance the extra transport costs Ukrainian grain exports will face with the end of the Black Sea deal, leaving an opportunity for Moscow to cash in.
The EUโs โsolidarity lanesโ initiative to help Ukraine export grain via European routes and ports could entirely replace the Black Sea route become impractical after Russia’s unilateral withdrawal from a UN-brokered deal, according to the bloc’s agricu…
Western nations fear an economic collapse in Tunisia could trigger even greater migrant flows and have offered financial assistance. Yet prospects of Tunisia’s sealing the biggest deal of all — a $1.9-billion bailout from the IMF — seem increasingly …
Russia jolted world grain markets with an escalation in the Black Sea, mounting a third straight night of air strikes on Ukrainian ports and issuing a threat against Ukraine-bound vessels to which Kyiv responded in kind.
The White House warned on Wednesday (19 July) that Russia may expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.
Five Central European EU members will jointly ask the EU on Wednesday (19 July) to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports beyond a 15 September deadline to avoid major market disruptions, Hungary’s farm minister said.ย
There are a “number of ideas being floated” to help get Ukrainian and Russian grain and fertilizer to global markets after Moscow quit a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, the UN said on 18 July.
Russia struck Ukrainian ports on 18 July, a day after pulling out of an UN-backed deal to let Kyiv export grain, and Moscow claimed gains on the ground in an area where Ukraine saidย Russian forcesย were back on the offensive.
Russia halted participation on Monday (17 July) in the year-old UN-brokered deal that lets Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea, causing concern in poorer countries that price rises will put food out of reach.
Russia halted participation on 17 July in the UN-brokered deal which lets Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea, just hours after a blast knocked out Russia’s bridge to Crimea in what Moscow called a strike by Ukrainian sea drones.
The clock is ticking down Monday (17 July) on the deal that allows Ukraine to export its grain via the Black Sea, with the agreement set to expire at midnight Istanbul time (2100 GMT).
UN Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of a Russian bank to the SWIFT system.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan said on Saturday (8 July) that he was pressing Russia to extend a Black Sea grain deal by at least three months and announced a visit by President Vladimir Putin in August.
