Snake Island campaign 2022
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Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 24 February 2022 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2022 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Post-1945 (1946 onwards) | derived from year |
| Nearest landmass | At sea (nearest continent: Europe) | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Snake Island during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Russia, Ukraine | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 45.2550, 30.2042 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Snake Island campaign was a Russian military attack on and occupation of Snake Island, a small, strategically located Ukrainian island in the Black Sea. On 24 February 2022, the first day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy attacked Snake Island and captured it along with its garrison, beginning a 126-day military occupation.
The attack was widely publicized after a recording of a radio conversation went viral. On the clip, the Russian cruiser Moskva hails the island's garrison over the radio demanding their surrender; a Ukrainian soldier responds, "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" (Russian: 'Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй', romanized: Russky voyenny korabl, idi na khuy). There were initial inaccurate reports of the garrison's deaths.
Russian forces also captured a civilian search-and-rescue ship that sought to evacuate the soldiers. The ship, its crew, and at least one soldier were later freed in prisoner exchanges.
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