Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine’s folklore, now more than ever. Its defiant defense ... The Black Sea can be unforgiving, and so can its hazardous coastline.

Controlling the sea. Snake Island has for centuries been disputed among the Black Sea powers because of its favorable location. After Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video of himself visiting Snake Island — the tiny Black Sea outpost that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance — to mark the 500th day of the ...

Fighting continues over Ukraine’s Zmiinyi Island, also known as Snake Island, as Russia looks to reinforce its troops on the small body of land located just off the southwest Ukrainian coastline ...

A Ukrainian soldier looks at a damaged Russian military aircraft on Snake Island in the Black Sea, Ukraine, on December 18, 2022. Russian troops occupied the island in the early stages of its ...

Ukraine has published new footage appearing to show a Ukrainian vessel firing on a Russian military aircraft in the Black Sea as Kyiv ramps up the pressure on Russian forces in the region.

Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine’s folklore, now more than ever. Its defiant defense ... The Black Sea can be unforgiving, and so can its hazardous coastline.

On Snake Island, the rocky Black Sea outcrop that became a Ukraine war legend. Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine's folklore, now more than ever.

The Black Sea can be unforgiving, and so can its hazardous coastline. On the way back our dirigible boat got stuck on a sandbar, and it took six hours before we were transferred, one-by-one, to ...

By Will Ripley, Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Kostantyn Hak, CNN Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine’s folklore, now more than ever. Its defiant defense — when a Russian warship was ...