{"id":1416560,"date":"2026-07-11T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-has-halted-shipping-in-the-sea-of-azov-and-through-the-kerch-strait-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:07:28","slug":"russia-has-halted-shipping-in-the-sea-of-azov-and-through-the-kerch-strait-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-has-halted-shipping-in-the-sea-of-azov-and-through-the-kerch-strait-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has halted shipping in the Sea of Azov and through the Kerch Strait: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia has temporarily suspended shipping through the Don-Azov Shipping Canal, which connects the Don River with the Sea of Azov.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/rpt-russia-halts-don-azov-channel-shipping-affecting-grain-trade-after-ukraine-2026-07-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reports<\/a> that the decision was made following<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-hellish-night-for-the-occupiers-unmanned-systems-forces-hit-13-russian-ships-near-crimea\/\"> Ukraine&#8217;s strikes on 13 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov<\/a> on Friday, July 10. Among them were 10 tankers.<\/p>\n<p>Russian border guards also informed shipping companies that all requests for passage through the Kerch Strait, which connects the Azov and Black Seas, will not be accepted starting at 6:10 p.m. local time on July 10, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>Market analysts note that a quarter of wheat exports from Russia, the world&#8217;s largest grain exporter, pass through the Sea of Azov.<\/p>\n<p>According to unofficial reports, Rostov and Taganrog in Russia have stopped accepting wheat. Trucks are piling up at the entrances to these cities&#8217; ports.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Pryamoy, on July 10, the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Force (UUF) announced the<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sbs-announced-a-record-14-russian-tankers-were-hit-in-a-day\/\"> destruction of 14 Russian tankers<\/a> transporting fuel to temporarily occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has temporarily suspended shipping through the Don-Azov Shipping Canal, which connects the Don River with the Sea of Azov. Reuters reports that the decision was made following Ukraine&#8217;s strikes on 13 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov on Friday, July 10. Among them were 10 tankers. Russian border guards also informed shipping companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1416551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1416560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416565,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416560\/revisions\/1416565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}