The war swing in Ukraine:
The Southern Command of the Ukrainian army reported today (Thursday) the withdrawal of Russian forces from the island of Zimniy, known as the Snake Island, after another shake-up by the Ukrainian army on the Russian forces on the island.
The report was confirmed by the Russian regime, which issued a statement quoting the Ria Novosti news agency as saying that Russian forces on the island had "completed their mission" and that the withdrawal was carried out as a "gesture of goodwill".
The Ukrainian side claimed that the Russians withdrew from the island after discovering that it was almost within range of the Ukrainian artillery, after the United States and NATO countries handed over long-range artillery to the Ukrainians, who used it and managed to hit the Russian military air defense systems on the island.
The Russian military has also reportedly destroyed military equipment on the island, including patrol boats and missile systems, before withdrawing its forces.
Of strategic importance in controlling the sea passage to the port of Odessa as well as as an anti-aircraft weapons station.
The Russian military has made great efforts under heavy casualties to place weapons and air defense systems on the island, but it now appears that this effort has failed.
The morning explosions on Snake Island,
The island is also of great symbolic importance to the Ukrainians, after a small Ukrainian force stationed on the island at the outbreak of the war sent a response to the Russian Black Sea Fleet's flagship in response to a demand to surrender that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion.
The members of the force, numbering 13 fighters, responded to the demand of the destroyer "Moscow", which has since drowned in a Ukrainian attack, to surrender with the words: "Russian warship, go to hell".
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Meanwhile, Russia is also recording successes on the war front.
In the Donbas region, Russian forces are close to a complete siege of the city of Lisichensk and the Ukrainian army is having a hard time holding onto access roads to the city.
Canadian journalist Neil Bauer claimed that Russian soldiers had managed to cut off at least one of the entrances to the city and control the city's refinery.
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