Evacuation, we had to lay down arms. and so our command decided we re not going to evacuate unless we kept our arms. but the russians were providing a green corridor, a safe passage for any civilians and also any servicemen who would lay down arms. so some civilians left by this patrol boats, they have a museum on the island, so the staff, there are three people, i think, and so we stayed and continued to fight. but the russians destroyed our air defenses, they had planes and they had also they were firing from the moskva warship, and they were using the aviation to bombard our positions. we sheltered, we didn t have many sheltered, but we had some shelters and we ran between them. and at some point when all our defenses were destroyed, we had our command decided that we are going to give ourselves up, so
Snake island that was involved in that now infamous exchange in february. can you tell us exactly what happened that day? translator: so everything began at 3:00 a.m. we were woken up by a combat alert and we had to get up and get dressed and come out on to our firing positions. we saw the moskva warship and also several patrol boats. and they were approaching the coastline, and at some point around 11:00 in the morning, moskva warship was very close, about 200, 500 meters away from the coastline. and they commanded us to evacuate. they told us that there are three patrol boats that are provided for our evacuation. but there was a condition to the
The last 53 days. in russia, well, it is a totally different story. have a look. the presenter you heard there calls the invasion of ukraine a special operation against nato weapons in ukraine, and not a war. now, the truth is, of course, it is a war, and the u.s. and its allies are sending weapons to defend against russia s invasion. here is another example. the sinking of the moskva warship, which the u.s. and ukraine say was done by ukrainian missiles. well, it was brushed off by russian media as just a fire.
Russia warns it is increasing air strikes against Kyiv, apparently in retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil & waters. A major Russian Black Sea warship sank Thursday & Kyiv says its missiles were responsible.