Eleven weeks after Russia captured Snake Island (Zmiinyi Island), a strategically and symbolically important Ukrainian rock in the Black Sea, fighting continues, "with Russia repeatedly trying to reinforce its exposed garrison located there," Britain's Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update early Wednesday.
"Ukraine has successfully struck Russian air defenses and resupply vessels with Bayraktar drones," the Defense Ministry added. "Russia's resupply vessels have minimum protection in the western Black Sea, following the Russian Navy's retreat to Crimea after the loss of the Moskva," Russia's sunken Black Sea flagship Ukrainian forces told to "go f--k yourself" before Russia took the island.
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