Russian Navy ship sails through the Bosphorus Strait AFP via Getty Images Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has spent the past few months previewing a comprehensive ten-point peace plan. But Z...
Tag: Black Sea
Is It A New Ukrainian Attack Drone?
Ukraine may be using a new type of drone boat supplied by the U.S. to attack Russian warships in the Black Sea. Russian forces found a drone boat washed up on a beach close to their naval base at Seva...
Grain Is Starting To Ship From Ukrainian Ports But It Might Be Too Late For Starving Millions
For six months, ships filled with grain have been sitting idle in ports along the Black Sea, victims of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Now some of those ships are moving, navigating the perils...
Ukraine Is Blasting Russia’s Offshore Platforms On The Black Sea
A Neptune anti-ship missile during testing. Ukrainian navy photo The Ukrainian navy last month struck a Russian natural-gas rig on the Black Sea. The attack on the night of June 26 damaged Tavrida, a ...
Russia’s Torching of Wheat Fields in Ukraine May Not Disrupt Global Supplies as Much as Putin Hopes
Eastern European media outlet posted this photo of a Ukrainian wheat field purportedly set alight by … [+] Russian incendiary shells. Twitter photo posted by @nexta_tv Videos of burning Ukrainia...
Ukrainian Troops Just Hoisted Their Flag On Snake Island—Then Speeded Away As Russian Missiles Rained Down
Ukrainian forces on Snake Island on July 7, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A team of Ukrainian troops riding in at least one machine-gun-armed small boat landed on Snake Island around dawn on ...
How Ukraine Won The Battle
LVIV, UKRAINE – MAY 09: Limited edition “Snake Island” stamps, commemorating the moment when a … [+] Ukrainian soldier defiantly replied “Russian warship, go f*ck yoursel...
Russia Widens Attack On Food With Bombing Of Train Bound For José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen
A dozen pallets of meat, two pallets of fresh vegetables, three pallets of fruit. There was fish, pasta, buckwheat and sugar. All on the way to needy families in Ukraine. All destroyed. A Russian miss...
With New Tactics, Ukraine Can Break Russia’s Black Sea Grain Blockade
Any of these Black Sea ships, waiting to access a Romanian Port, can carry an anti ship missile. Getty Images In the American Civil War, Southern rebels used all manner of subterfuge to try and break ...
Skirting Russian Black Sea Blockade To Feed The World’s Hungriest Is Mission Of Yemen’s Biggest Company
Yemen’s civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and left many of the survivors without enough to eat. Now, Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s food exports has made it even harder for the world’s hungri...
Russia’s Control of Snake Island Spells Hunger and Instability for Parts of Africa and The Middle East
A view of Snake Island, Ukraine which is currently occupied and controlled by a Russian garrison. Wikipedia commons Russia’s foothold on Snake Island, a smattering of land off the coast of Western Ukr...
The Russians Appear To Be Sending A Deep-Diving Submersible To The Wreck Of The Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Kommuna’ and her AS-28 submersible. Russian navy photo The Russian navy reportedly is trying to salvage sensitive materials from the wreck of the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, which sank...
Cargill Dodges Russian Missiles But Vows To Keep Feeding Both Sides Of The Ukraine War
The biggest privately held company in the U.S. has been operating in the area for decades and says food should never be used as a weapon. On Feb. 24, in the first hours of Russia’s unprovoked attacks ...
Ukraine Has A Tiny Amphibious Force With A Very Dangerous Job
Naval infantry storm ashore from ‘Yuri Olefirenko.’ Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian navy is assembling what is, for the Kremlin, a powerful amphibious force in the Black Sea—o...