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Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island, White Island, Island of Achilles or Zmiinyi Island (Ukrainian: острів Зміїний, romanized: ostriv Zmiinyi; Romanian: Insula Șerpilor), is a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta, with an important role in delimiting Ukrainian territorial waters
The Snake Island campaign was a period of Russian occupation and military conflict for Snake Island, a small, strategically located Ukrainian island in the Black Sea.On 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy attacked Snake Island and captured it along with its entire garrison, beginning a military occupation of the island.
Morale patches are a part of military history and have cultural significance for soldiers [4] and law enforcement personnel. [citation needed] The morale patch's roots can be traced to the British Army, before World War I, who called them "battle patches". Mainly used to identify allies and enemy units, the distinctive designs would identify ...
On 24 February 2022, the Russian flagship cruiser Moskva [11] and patrol ship Vasily Bykov began an assault on Snake Island, a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea near the Danube Delta. It is a small island with a single village populated by fewer than 30 people, that had a contingent of 13 border guards , all belonging to the Izmail ...
Ukrainian propaganda also compares Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, calling him a "Putler," and Russian troops to the Nazis, calling them a mixture of Russians and fascists, "ruscists." Ukrainian propaganda calls the Russian military "orcs" and Russia "Mordor", a fictional land of evil in the books of The Lord of the Rings.
The regiment installed Ukrainian flags on different parts of the island as well as the flag of the 73rd regiment. [41] On August 24, 2022, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, awarded the regiment with the honorary award "For Courage and Bravery (Ukraine)" for its actions in the Snake Island campaign. [42]
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A number of fabricated CNN headlines and stories went viral on social media, [172] including of a faked image of CNN reporting that Steven Seagal had been seen alongside the Russian military, [172] false tweets claiming that a CNN journalist had been killed in Ukraine, [172] [173] a CNN lower third that was digitally altered to include a claim ...