Snake Island

2022 - 6 - 30

Post cover — Image courtesy of "The Guardian"

Ukraine says it has pushed Russian forces from Snake Island (The Guardian)

If Ukraine were to retake the island it would weaken any plans Russia may have for a future land attack on that stretch of coastline. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the ...

The explosion was so loud that people in Vylkove, the nearest Ukrainian land settlement, could hear it, according to residents interviewed by the Economist. They would then use it to control the entire western part of the Black Sea and launch a land invasion, he said. Six people were injured in an attack on the city of Slovyansk, according to its mayor Vadym Lyakh. The southern command also released a video showing 10 strikes on the island, one of which allegedly shows the destruction of a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defence system. Ukrainian forces now control the Kherson village of Potomkine, according to Ukraine’s military. Ukraine said it had forced Russian troops to flee overnight on two speed boats.

Ukraine wins back control over Snake Island (NPR)

Ukraine's southern forces have been striking the island in recent days to take out Russian outposts. Russia's defense ministry said its troops left as a ...

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Ukraine retakes Snake Island from Russia forces: 5 things to know (Aljazeera.com)

Stories about Snake Island stretch back millennia to the ancient Greeks' mythological Trojan war.

- The day the stamp was issued, Ukraine sank the same Russian vessel, the Moskva, which had demanded the island surrender and which had been the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. - Stories about the island stretch back millennia to the ancient Greeks’ mythological Trojan war. Russian forces have withdrawn from Snake Island in the Black Sea in a move Ukraine hailed as a victory and Russia said showed Moscow was not seeking to hinder the United Nations’ efforts to organise a corridor for the export of Ukrainian food products.

On Snake Island, defiant Ukrainians force a Russian withdrawal (The Washington Post)

Ukraine scores a key symbolic victory on the Black Sea island where a lone Ukrainian soldier famously tossed a salty expletive at a powerful Russian ...

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The fight: A slowly regenerating Russian army is making incremental gains in eastern Ukraine against valiant but underequipped Ukrainian forces. The island, which covers just 0.06 square miles, sits on a major shipping lane and access point to the key port of Odessa. Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that its forces had “completed their assigned tasks” on the island. The latest: NATO leaders are meeting Thursday in Madrid for a third and final day. A blitz of Ukrainian artillery, rockets and airstrikes this month forced the Russians to pull out, Valery Zaluzhny, commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, wrote in a Facebook post. News of the salty verbal exchange between Russian forces aboard the Moskva and the Snake Island guards ricocheted around the world. It’s also unclear whether Ukraine will send troops back to the island. He shared video footage of missiles hitting the island and the surrounding waters. He also thanked foreign allies for weapons that aided the fight. They offered significantly different accounts of the events that led to that outcome, however. Ukraine said initially that its guards on Snake Island, a tiny piece of land about 25 miles off Ukraine’s southeastern coast, had been killed. Roman Hrybov, the Ukrainian soldier who reportedly cursed at the Russians, was released in a prisoner swap in March and given a medal for valor.

Russia Retreats from Ukraine's Snake Island (Voice of America)

The head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office, Andriy Yermak, confirmed the withdrawal of Russian forces from the island. “No Russian troops on ...

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed it had left the small island “as a symbol of goodwill” after completing its mission there. “No Russian troops on the Snake Island anymore. Their response, “Russian warship, go f— yourself,” led to an artillery attack from the ship and Ukrainian troops were forced to surrender the island.

Russia pulls back from contested Snake Island south of Ukraine ... (CBC.ca)

Russian forces withdrew from a strategic island in the Black Sea Thursday, potentially easing the threat to the vital Ukrainian port city of Odesa, ...

They made no reference to claims that attacking forces had been able to cross the strategic Siverskiy Donets river and enter the city from the north. It was unclear if the evacuation meant a change in Moscow's designs on Ukraine's biggest port, which is crucial for shipping grain to Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world. Russia has denied the accusations and charged that Ukraine needs to remove sea mines from the Black Sea to allow safe navigation. Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said Russian reconnaissance units trying to enter Lysychansk on Wednesday were repelled. The exact number of troops was not disclosed. Snake Island sits along a busy shipping lane.