Ukraine War: Ukrainian defenders fully retake Snake Island

Created: 07/01/2022 06:59

By: Caroline Schäfer

A missile hits the port city of Odessa as Ukrainian troops retake Snake Island.

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• Snake

  Island : Ukraine can recapture the strategically important island in the Black Sea.

  Russia's troops suffer setbacks.

• Fighting in the Donbass

  : The military situation in the embattled Lysychansk in the Luhansk region is coming to a head.

  Russia advances in Ukraine war.

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Kyiv – The situation in eastern and southern Ukraine remains very serious.

While Russia is showing off its military superiority in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv can at least celebrate the recapture of Snake Island in the Black Sea.

The withdrawal of Russian troops gives Ukraine a better position, emphasized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"Snake Island is a strategic point and that changes the situation in the Black Sea significantly," he said in his daily video address on Friday night (July 1).

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Ukraine News: Snake Island recaptured – Russia's military currently restricted

Even if that does not guarantee security, the Russian military's freedom of action is significantly restricted.

According to Ukrainian military information, Snake Island allows control over parts of Ukraine's coast and shipping lanes.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities reported a rocket attack on the port city of Odessa.

As a result, at least ten people are said to have been killed.

The rocket hit a nine-story apartment building, said the head of the local military administration, Serhiy Brachuk.

Kyiv believes the missile was fired from a Russian military aircraft over the Black Sea.

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Rescuers and residents retrieve a body from the rubble of a building after a Russian airstrike in Lysychansk.

While Ukraine is able to retake Snake Island, fighting in the east of the country suddenly resumes.

(Archive image) © Efrem Lukatsky/dpa

Ukraine War: Lysychansk threatened by encirclement

Fighting is also continuing in eastern Ukraine.

In Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, the defenders say they are threatened with encirclement.

The refinery, located about seven kilometers west of the city, was fought over, the general staff said.

Russian forces were advancing on the city from the south, and fighting was also going on on the western and southern city limits.

The refinery has already been portrayed as completely conquered in the Russian media.

The former city of Lyssychansk is the last largest town in Luhansk that is not yet under Russian control.

In neighboring Donetsk, on the other hand, Russian advances near Sloviansk and Bakhmut were repulsed, the general staff said.

Along the front line, Ukrainian positions were continuously being shelled with artillery and bombarded from the air, it said.

"The superiority of the occupiers in terms of firepower is extremely noticeable," said Zelenskyj on the situation in the east.

Russia draws on its reserves for this.

(kas/dpa)