Ukrainian border guards put up a new sign on Snake Island this weekend and recalled the first hours of the Russian invasion, when a comrade on this strategic Black Sea promontory used a peculiar phrase to refuse to surrender to the war, Reuters reports.
“The next border sign will be installed in our Ukrainian Crimea after it is liberated by the defense forces,” says a man in uniform standing in front of a blue-and-yellow post in a video posted on Facebook on Saturday night by the head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Serhiy Deineko of the border service.
“Historical justice has been restored. Ukraine will definitely win!!!”, Deineko wrote on his Facebook.
The Russians have been without Snake Island for a year
Snake Island became synonymous with Ukrainian resistance in the early hours of the invasion on February 24, 2022, when Russian officers on the Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, radioed the Ukrainian guards stationed there and ordered them to surrender or die.
One of them replied: “Russian warship, go to hell.”
The phrase became a national slogan, which was displayed on Ukrainian billboards, T-shirts and even on a postage stamp.
The island has a strategic position on the sea routes to Odessa, the main port of Ukraine on the Black Sea.
On April 14, 2022, two Ukrainian missiles hit the Moskva, the largest warship sunk in combat over the past 40 years.
On June 30 last year, Russia abandoned Snake Island after suffering heavy losses trying to hold on to it. She claimed that the exit was another “gesture of goodwill”.
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Source: Hot News
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