Ukraine activates air defences in Odessa regionThe Odesa region in southern Ukraine is home to maritime terminals that were key to the expired grain export agreement between Moscow and K...
- First grain shipment leaves Ukraine as southern city pounded
The blockage of deliveries from warring Russia and Ukraine -- two of the world's biggest grain exporters -- has contributed to soaring food...
EU to cut Russian gas use as missiles strike UkraineThe effort to help Germany wean itself off Russian gas for the winter came as Turkey announced a meeting in Russia next week between Turkis...
Russia says strike on Odessa port hit Ukrainian military targetsRussia says its missiles had destroyed a Ukrainian warship and weapons from the United States after a strike on Ukraine's Black Sea port of...
Ukraine's Zelensky accuses Russia of 'terror' as missiles rain downRockets struck residential properties in Solviansk in the heart of the embattled Donbas region, killing a woman in her garden and wounding ...
At least 21 killed in missile strikes on residential area in Ukraine's Odeassa regionThe attack came as Russian troops withdrew from Snake Island after occupying the strategic Black Sea outpost for months. Snake Island, a ti...
Russia to 'intensify' fighting, Zelensky warns as EU decision loomsNearly three months after Russia launched a bloody invasion of his country, Zelensky said there had been "few such fateful decisions for Uk...
Antony Blinken says reports of Russia stealing Ukraine grain 'credible'"There are credible reports... that Russia is pilfering Ukraine's grain exports to sell for its own profit," Blinken said at a State Depart...
Vladimir Putin hits back at West; says grains from Ukraine can be exported via ports or via BelarusCalling out the West', Putin clarified that Russia had not blocked any exports. "There is no problem to export grain from Ukraine," he said...
Russia offers to export 25 million tonnes of grain from August 1"This year, we expect a record high wheat harvest. In this regard, we can offer 25 million tonnes of grain for export from the port of Novo...
UN food agency seeks safe access in Ukraine war zonesThe Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), which has been operating in Ukraine since the start of the conflict, says it has delivered food ...
Zelenskyy says he's in Kyiv, not hidingIn his latest address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he's still in Kyiv and not hiding as Russia's wa...
Countries seek UN meeting over shipping dangers after Ukraine invasionAn Estonian-owned cargo ship sank on Thursday off Ukraine's major Black Sea port of Odessa, hours after a Bangladeshi vessel was hit by a m...
Key Ukrainian cities Russia is trying to takeHere are five cities Russsian forces are targeting.
Explosions heard in Ukraine capital Kyiv, other citiesAFP correspondents also heard blasts in the Black Sea port city of Odessa, with police and ambulance sirens heard across the Ukrainian capi...
Russia has launched full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv saysInterfax Ukraine reported rocket attacks on military facilities throughout Ukraine and that Russian troops had landed in the southern port ...
Ukraine crisis: 'Concerned' India asks all to abjure violenceConcerned that Odessa could be the next region to fall to pro-Russia forces, the Kiev government has launched a military offensive to quell...