Shipping companies have suspended services to Ukraine's Black Sea ports following mounting Russian attacks on the coast, officials said Thursday.

It used to be that Russia’s and Ukraine’s military decision-makers mostly left civilian ships alone and at least didn’t go out of their way to attack them. That changed over the…

Ukrainian strikes in the Sea of Azov have paralysed Russian grain exports. Russian exporters are forecast to ship 1.5 million tonnes of wheat abroad in July, a third less than in…