That may very well be true, but the initial story was these brace Ukranian fighters when asked to surrender to the Russians responded by giving them the finger and said “FU”, then fought to the last man, all of which was propaganda.
That’s my point, both sides are putting industrial strength propaganda, anyone choosing to believe any of it, is either foolish or ignorant.
I told you what happened in post 65, the FU audio was real.
On the very first day Ukraine was attacked and Russia launched its war, the Russians shelled and attacked Snake island, and communication was lost, the 13 border guards were presumed dead.
Two days later the Ukrainian Border Guard reported that they may have been captured alive, and then on the 4th day the Ukrainian Navy reported that they had been captured alive.
In the first 2 days of a war that is pretty good intelligence, and government reporting for an overrun island manned by 13 men.