All news on the topic: Black Sea

Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps lashed out at the Twitter billionaire after he admitted thwarting a seaborne assault by Kyiv on Russia's Black Sea fleet at anchor in Crimea

The PM slapped down Defence Secretary Grant Shapps after he said he was holding talks with Army chiefs about moving a British-led training programme for Ukrainian troops to the war zone

A Russian commander made a surprise 'appearance' at a meeting with other senior members of the military amid reports he had died in a devastating Ukrainian strike

Nine people were killed when a Ukrainian Storm Shadow missile struck at the headquarter's of Vladimir Putin's Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Ukraine, with two senior Russian military chiefs thought to be among the 16 wounded

The head of the Senior Service, First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key, said while NATO vessels were not currently operating in the waters, 'I don’t rule anything in or out'

The ramping up of rhetoric came as terrified Ukrainians fled for safety from Russian bombs and missiles raining down on key sites, including the eastern city of Pokrovsk

The vessel's engine room sustained damage in the strike on Friday night in the Black Sea near Crimea and, though 11 crew members were on board, there were no severe casualties

Vladimir Putin’s forces deployed two warships to counter the strikes - one of them, the Olenegorsky Gornyak, was towed back to harbour in bad shape, though Russia's defence ministry deny any damage

Guinean embassy worker Lama Jacques Sevoba was spotted draped in a t-shirt covered with the face of Russia's tyrannical leader, Vladimir Putin, who is on a charm offensive trying to shore up support for his brutal war in Ukraine among African leaders

A probe is underway at the Ministry of Defence after a typing error meant a "small number" of emails were sent to Mali - which is closely aligned with the Kremlin

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Russia must stop holding global food supplies 'hostage' after the Kremlin pulled out of a wartime export deal allowing safe shipment of grain from Ukraine

Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said today that four children were among those wounded in the early-morning blasts, which severely damaged the historic Transfiguration Cathedral, in Odesa, Ukraine

The attack in Crimea, blamed on Ukraine by Russian officials, triggered a massive explosion and led to the evacuation of civilians in a three-mile radius

The private train companies and Tory Government will have to go back to the drawing board if the Labour mayors, marshalled by Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham, win their legal attempt to derail a consultation process dismissed as “shambolic”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dramatically scrapped a wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia after the Crimea bridge was blown up again

Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to Snake Island to mark the 500th day since the Russian invasion began - with the site becoming iconic after defenders told warship operators to: "Go f*** yourself"

The attack was the largest on Lviv’s civilian infrastructure since Russia invaded Ukraine last year and it destroyed entire floors of the residential building that was struck

Russia has refused to provide accurate information as to the amount of its soldiers killed during the gruelling war in Ukraine - but war-watchers predict the number stands at around 200,000

Ukraine has warned Russian holidaymakers in a terrifying new video that they could be hit by missile and drone strikes if they decide to travel to a popular holiday destination

Following their short-lived mutiny, Wagner's squad of war-hardened mercenaries were exiled to neighbouring Belarus, but Russia thinks they may now mount a follow-up attack at the already-battered Crimea Kerch Bridge

Flight tracking information shows two planes arrived in Belarus from Russia, amid Yevgeny Prigozhin’s exile rumours following his failed coup attempt

Russia's defence ministry claims to have intercepted two British Typhoon jets accompanied by an RC-135 near to its border over the Black Sea before the foreign planes turned around and 'distanced themselves'

Russia has trained dolphins guarding a vital Black Sea base and has added Beluga whales and dolphins to its ranks deploying them in Arctic waters

Russia's dolphin unit has expanded as Moscow becomes nervous over drone attacks on its Black Sea fleet in Sevastapol in annexed Crime following devastating Ukraine drone attacks

Soldiers seized communities in the Vremivka Ledge area of Donetsk in the south east, beat back assaults in the frontline town of Avdiivka and gained half a mile in the Bakhmut region