Black Sea News

A US military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets.

Bodies of more than 900 civilians have been found outside Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. Russia has threatened renewed missile attacks on Kyiv. Russia used missiles to destroy a facility for the repair and production of missile systems in Kyiv.

Today is the 42nd day of the war between Ukraine and Russia. In the ongoing war between the two countries, Russia is accused of carrying out the horrific massacre in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, in which 300 people have been killed. Russia has denied these allegations.

WTO said that the Ukraine war could lead to food riots in poor countries. WTO warned food-producing countries against hoarding supplies.

Russia has launched a major sea attack on Ukraine. Russia fired 8 'Kalibr' missiles simultaneously on Ukraine from the Black Sea. Watch exclusive visuals..

Moscow is staging naval drills in the Black Sea this month at the same time as it holds ground drills north of Ukraine in Belarus This is part of a show of force that the West says could be a precursor to an invasion, which Moscow denies Russia said six warships had arrived at Sevastopol in Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014

Russian Su-27s intercepted US P-8A Poseidons on July 23, 24 and 27 Russia claimed all the intercepts by Sukhoi Su-27s were carried over neutral waters of the Black Sea Ukraine had conducted the Sea Breeze-2020 multinational military exercises from July 20 to 27 in the Black Sea which involved US warplanes and troops

The US P-8A Poseidon is tasked with anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), and shipping interdiction roles while the RC-135 is used for gathering intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Russian Maritime Agency and Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre Novorossiysk are still continuing the efforts to locate the missing persons.

This week a court in Russia extended by three months the arrest of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured along with their ships in November in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea with the Azov Sea.

A bilateral treaty gives both countries the right to use the sea, which lies between them and is linked by the narrow Kerch Strait to the Black Sea.

NATO is set to launch a new multinational force in Romania on Monday to counter Russia along its eastern flank and to check a growing Russian presence in the Black Sea following the Kremlin`s 2014 seizure of Crimea. 

The boat, which was taken to the southeastern port of Mangalia, is the fourth to have been found carrying migrants in the Black Sea since mid-August.

"Currently we know of 18 dead and 33 people injured in the tragedy," said a statement on the website of the local authorities in Temryuk, a town in Russia`s Krasnodar region.

A cargo ship with 12 persons aboard sank in the Black Sea on Wednesday, prompting a large-scale rescue operation.

Russia's Transport Minister Thursday said that equipment on the military jet that crashed in the Black Sea was functioning "abnormally", but that it was too early to say what caused the crash.

The Defense Ministry says search teams have recovered another flight recorder from a military plane that crashed in the Black Sea, killing all 92 aboard.

Russian rescuers working round the clock have found the main black box from the Syria-bound military plane that crashed into the Black Sea with 92 people on board, authorities said Tuesday.

The main black box of the Syria-bound Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea with 92 people onboard has been found in a massive ongoing search operation, authorities said Tuesday.