Kyiv to honour troops killed defending ‘Snake Island’

Soldiers who reportedly stood their floor withinside the face of Russian naval assault to be honoured, Ukraine president

Ukraine says it’s going to posthumously honour a collection of Ukrainian border guards who had been killed protecting a tiny island withinside the Black Sea at some point of a multi-pronged Russian invasion.

Ukraine misplaced touch with its forces on Zmiinyi (Snake) Island, a speck of land south of the port of Odesa, on Thursday after Russia carried out moves from air and sea.

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A Ukrainian respectable stated thirteen squaddies had been killed and he circulated an audio clip that he and media outlet Ukrainskaya Pravda stated turned into a conversation among Ukrainian and Russian forces.

“This is a Russian warship. I advocate you lay down your guns and give up to keep away from bloodshed and pointless victims. Otherwise you’ll be bombed,” audio of the alleged Russian caution stated.

“Russian warship, move f*** yourself,” reportedly got here the respond via way of means of Ukraine troops.

Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the indoors minister, stated Russia then started out moves.

The authenticity of the recording couldn’t be independently verified.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised in a speech summarising Thursday’s preventing to enhance the deceased border guards.

“On our Zmiinyi Island, protecting it to the last, all of the border guards died heroically. But they did now no longer supply up. All of them could be posthumously offered the identify of Hero of Ukraine,” he stated in remarks on his website.

On Friday, Russia’s defence ministry stated eighty two Ukrainian squaddies at the island had surrendered voluntarily. It made no point out of sporting out moves or causing casualties.