“Landing of Ukrainian HUR on Zmiinyi Island, May 2022. The soldiers raided Russian positions on the island, and retreated to avoid confrontation with Russian reinforcements.”
“This video of a Ukrainian special forces assault on Snake Island in May just surfaced. I believe that this was on the morning of May 7th based on a previous investigation of that date I have done with @ArtisanalAPT . I will lay out a imeline below
@ArtisanalAPT and I have spent the last days looking further into the observations and theories in this thread and looking into the origins of the barely visible smoke trail by Snake Island. We made some interesting discoveries...
Some time prior to May 6th at 14:49 a Ukrainian TB-2 destroyed a Russian Tor on Snake snake Island.
We know that it was prior to May 6th at 14:49 as a satellite pass shared by AP from that time showed a building destroyed with was still intact on the video.
In the early morning hours of May 7th, two Ukrainian Air Force Su-27s bombed Snake Island.
At 04:20 local time on May 4th a Ukrainian TB-2 struck a Russian Serna-class landing craft on the island.
t 9:07 UTC on May 7th, two Ukrainian Sea Force 11M RIBs were seen on satellite moving away from Snake Island. I believe this is immediately after the assault shown on the newly released video. A plume of smoke from the water and what appear to be life rafts were also visible.
According to this post logged in @oryxspioenkop ‘s list, a Ukrainian Mi-14 was lost some time prior to May 9th after having been shot down by a Russian fighter aircraft.
A Ukrainian Naval aviator was killed some time around that date while performing a mission near Snake Island. The unit he was reportedly assigned to operates Mi-14s.
At least one of the Ukrainian Sea Force 11M RIBs was spotted right off Snake Island at 08:44 UTC on May 7th.
At 00:53 on May 8th a Russian Mi-8 was destroyed by a Ukrainian TB-2 while unloading troops. At the time there was confusion as to why the troops appeared to be expecting contact on Russian controlled Snake Island. We now know a Ukrainian SOF strike took place the day prior.”
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1625454430316265473
“The first confirmed loss of very recently adopted jamming station from #Russian Palantin electronic warfare system destroyed by highly accurate artillery fire.”
https://twitter.com/SalmelaJS/status/1625425736889733122