Russo-Ukrainian War: Two Russian patrol boats sink near Snake Island.
The island of snakes it is a strategic point in the Black Sea, facilitating an attack base, but also very exposed.
From the first day of the battle in Ukraine, the Russians attacked it to seize it.
That resulted in an episode, staged by Ukrainian propaganda, in which the Ukrainian coastguard radioed a message to the Russian cruiser Moskva (later sunk) ordering it “go to hell”.
Last week, Ukrainians claimed they drove off the island and broke a Russian battery, further illustrating its importance.
The island, of several acres, offers a shooting platform and it is approximately 50 km from the mouth of the Danube, one of the major rivers in Europe and an important commercial route, and one hundred kilometers from Odessa.
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It is also located less than 200 kilometers from the Romanian port of Constanta and 300 kilometers from the Russian naval base in Sevastopol.
The island offers vast maritime domains and resources, especially hydrocarbons.
Romania and Ukraine had to go to court to resolve the dispute that opposed them for control of those resources. The International Court of Justice decided in 2009 that the island was Ukrainian.
In this war “this is a major, strategic point that needs to be guarded. Block air-naval access to any coast of Ukraine and represents a threat at the mouth of the Danube, “explained Captain Eric Lavault, French Navy spokesman.
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On such a platform, the Russians “could put anti-aircraft, anti-ship and medium-range missile defense material in addition to the firepower of the Black Sea fleet’s ships, and this was a point of support during the approach to the Ukrainian coast., according to Igor Delanoë, deputy director of the Franco-Russian Observatory in Moscow and a specialist in the Russian navy.
But on the other hand “the island is weak”, studies Michael Petersen of the U.S. Naval War College. “Anyone who lives there can be invaded and it’s hard to protect such a small island.”
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