Snake Island

Moscow says retreat shows 'goodwill' but Kyiv claims victory after bombardment of strategic Black Sea outpost.

Moscow framed the withdrawal from the Black Sea island as an effort to create a humanitarian corridor, while Kyiv said it came after intense artillery ...

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 latest: NATO leaders are meeting Thursday in Madrid for a third and final day. The fight: A slowly regenerating Russian army is making incremental gains in eastern Ukraine against valiant but underequipped Ukrainian forces. Their defiance has been celebrated across Ukraine on stamps and posters and hailed as a rallying moment in the defense of their country. Meanwhile, NATO leaders are meeting in Madrid on Thursday for a third and final day. CAESAR has a firing range of about 26 miles. The Ukrainians responded with a profane insult, prompting the Russians to open fire. The Washington Post could not independently verify those claims. In pro-Kremlin outlets, Russia’s withdrawal from the island was described as a setback for Moscow but also as a move necessary to save the lives of Russian soldiers. Pro-Russian war reporters and bloggers also have linked the reinforcement of Ukraine’s fighting capabilities to the French artillery system CAESAR, stationed in Odessa, as one of the reasons for the withdrawal, signaling a win for Kyiv and its Western allies. “On June 30, as a gesture of goodwill, the Russian Armed Forces completed their assigned tasks on Snake Island and withdrew the garrison stationed there,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. “[We] demonstrated to the world community that the Russian Federation does not interfere with the efforts of the UN to organize a humanitarian corridor for the export of agricultural products from the territory of Ukraine.”

As the Ukrainian forces successfully completed another stage of the military operation, Russians hastily evacuated the remains of their garrison from Snake ...

Russian forces have withdrawn from the strategic Black Sea outpost of Ukraine's Snake Island. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed Thursday that the withdrawal ...

“The most significant aspect is that this could open the door to Ukrainian grain exports from Odesa, which is critical for Ukraine's economy and for the global food supply,” Lee wrote in a Twitter post. "KABOOM! No Russian troops on the Snake Island anymore. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed Thursday that the withdrawal was a voluntary show of “goodwill” as Moscow seeks to discredit claims that it is enforcing a naval blockade in the area.

Russia has pulled back its forces from a Black Sea island where they have faced relentless Ukrainian attacks, but is keeping up its push to encircle the ...

— Speaking on a visit to Turkmenistan on Thursday, Putin said his goals in Ukraine haven't changed since the start of the war. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Putin met on the sidelines of a summit in Turkmenistan, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. On Thursday, Iranian state media said Iran has proposed expanding financial exchanges with Russia and cooperating in the energy field. The war has raised the specter of food shortages and political instability in countries reliant on Ukrainian wheat, including Indonesia, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon. Nevertheless, Haidai noted that as of Thursday evening, evacuations from the city were impossible due to heavy shelling and mined access roads. 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. The island's Ukrainian defenders were captured by the Russians but later freed as part of a prisoner exchange. He said the package will include rockets and advanced air defense systems. Russia has denied that and said Ukraine needs to remove mines from the Black Sea to allow safe navigation. — A senior Russian official warned that Moscow could consider Western sanctions as a cause for war. Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said Russian reconnaissance units trying to enter Lysychansk on Wednesday were repelled. The exact number of troops was not disclosed.

"KABOOM! No Russian troops on the Snake Island anymore," a Ukrainian official tweeted.

The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. Those soldiers were captured by Russian forces but later freed in a prisoner swap. Russian forces have withdrawn from the strategic Snake Island in the Black Sea, Russian and Ukrainian officials said Thursday.

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.

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.

Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island on Thursday in a victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia's ...

Lee said Russia's abandonment of the island was "likely a tangible result of NATO arms deliveries to Ukraine". Ukrainian forces have been mounting a counter-attack in the south, where Russian-installed proxies have announced preparations for votes to join Russia. The Russians are constantly on the offensive. "We do not prevent the export of Ukrainian grain. No it doesn't really," said Marcus Faulkner, a lecturer of War Studies at King's College London, noting that ports were still mined and that Russia could still intercept cargo ships at sea. "No Russian troops on the Snake Island anymore. "I don't know how it's going to end, but it will not end with Russia defeating Ukraine," Biden told a news conference. Currently, Snake island is consumed by fire, explosions are bursting," it said. Our Armed Forces did a great job." The Ukrainian military has mined the approaches to their ports; no one prevents them from clearing those mines and we guarantee the safety of shipping grain out of there," Putin said on Thursday. Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island on Thursday in a victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia's blockade on Ukrainian ports. Russia said it had decided to withdraw from the outcrop as a "gesture of goodwill" to show Moscow was not obstructing U.N. efforts to open a humanitarian corridor allowing grains to be shipped from Ukraine.