NewsThe Attack on Snake Island took place on 24 February 2022 on Snake Island in the Black Sea during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine initial advance.
There were 13 border guards stationed on Snake Island, a roughly 16-hectare (40-acre) rocky island owned by Ukraine that sits about 186 miles (300km) west of Crimea, when Russian troops bombed the island on Thursday. All 13 soldiers died after refusing to surrender, Ukrainian officials announced.
The official Russian account of the incident differs dramatically. Moscow said the 82 Ukrainian soldiers on the island surrendered it to them voluntarily and made no mention of carrying out strikes or inflicting casualties.
Ukraine was a country in Eastern Europe. This country is bordered by Russia to the east; In the north with Belarus; To the west by Poland, Slovakia and Hungary; It was bordered to the southwest by Romania and Moldova, to the south by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, with Kiev as its […]