Posted on 02/25/2022 2:55:50 AM PST by Morgana
All Ukrainian border guards protecting a tiny island in the Black Sea from Russian invaders were killed yesterday after refusing to surrender to warmonger Vladimir Putin’s forces and defiantly telling a Kremlin warship: ‘Go f*** yourselves!’.
The small contingent of soldiers, reportedly 13 in number, were posted on Snake Island in the Odessa region near NATO ally Romania and were defending the territory after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine early Thursday morning.
In a radio message, the soldiers were told by a sailor on board the vessel: ‘This is Russian military warship. I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and needless casualties. Otherwise, you will be bombed.’ However, the Ukrainian troops defiantly refused to give up the territory, and instead replied: 'Go f*** yourselves!’.
The Russian soldiers on radio are heard muttering the curse back at the Ukrainians, before all the border guards were killed in an aerial bombardment. Their deaths were later acknowledged by Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A video circulating on Twitter also appeared to show the moment that the island was shelled. It showed a Ukrainian soldier staring at a camera before a shell landed nearby.
On Thursday afternoon, Ukraine’s interior ministry had said Snake Island, which is also called Zmiinyi, had been attacked by Russian forces.
The island is ruled by Ukraine but sits just miles from the coast of Romania. Snake Island is strategically important because it will allow Russia to claim territorial waters stretching 12 nautical miles out to sea. They cover important shipping channels to the port cities of Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson.
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Posted for the 3-4th time.
There’s got to be a stirring ballad about this soon.
Are there names and photos of the 13? Ironic, 13 Americans killed in Afghanistan, 13 Ukrainians killed on Snake Island.
Sure sounds like propaganda to me.
there is a video if you speak Russian.
The Russian military claims that the garrison of 82 troops surrendered, and the above story is a poor attempt in heroic propaganda.
It will all be propaganda from all sides, especially reports in English.
Ukrainian soldiers grew up in the last thirty years, in a free Ukraine.
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Nathen Hale
Karma is coming to Putin... Massive mistake and he will regret it.
Replying with “NUTS” has yielded a better outcome according to history.
Saw the video. Incomplete.
Putin has launched a unilateral attack on a small country. You need to fashion propaganda? Real life is the propaganda in this case.
Anti-Biden propaganda, too. Every time I think he can’t possibly top his a@@hol-ty, he does.
Like the mouse giving the finger to the eagle in the last moments meme... “The last great act of Defiance!”
Vlad would never lie to us./s
Never would Ukrainians, I guess.
I searched by title...nothing found
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4041279/posts
One of a couple others posted between yesterday and now.
But its all good.
13 soldiers on a barren island with zero defenses.
This will be a turkey shoot for Putin
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