Russian Forces Leave Snake Island, Keep Up Eastern Assault
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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 last bulwark of Ukraine’s resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.
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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 last bulwark of Ukraine’s resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.
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 last bulwark of Ukraine's resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.
By Olga Voitovych, Anna Chernova and Tim Lister, CNN Russian troops have left Snake Island in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Thursday, after they carried out what they said was a “successful” operation.
Russian troops withdrew from Snake Island, a key strategic outpost off Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, as analysts said a counteroffensive in the south could ultimately prove decisive.
It's a major setback to Moscow's invasion that weakens its blockade of Ukraine's ports. Early in the war, Ukrainian forces there told sailors on a Russian warship to "go f*ck yourself."
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 "goodwill gesture."
Russia claimed the move was a "goodwill gesture" to allow the export of Ukrainian agricultural products. Meanwhile, fighting intensified in Lysychansk, in the Donbas region. DW has the latest.
Ukraine’s ability to use GPS-guided rockets supplied by the U.S. to sustainably and accurately batter the Russian garrison seems to have been the final straw, compelling Moscow to cut its losses trying to hold the seemingly indefensible island.
Were Russian troops forced into a humiliating retreat from Snake Island, or did Moscow order a withdrawal from the strategic island as a “goodwill” gesture to promote grain exports?...
Snake Island sits along a busy shipping lane, and Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
