SNAKE ISLAND, Ukraine—This rocky patch of land about 20 miles off the coast still bears the scars of the relentless Ukrainian ...

Russia already controls a large stretch of Ukraine's Black Sea coast, plus the Crimean Peninsula and the entire Sea of Azov. Holding Snake Island completed an effective blockade of Odesa ...

Snake or Zmiinyi Island is a fraction of a square kilometre in size and there are no more snakes to speak of. But there can be no doubt of its importance for control of the western Black Sea.

A series of fires have erupted in Russia's Black Sea waters near a Ukrainian island, and no one knows why or how they started.

In August 2023, the British government described the oil and gas towers in the northwestern Black Sea, much like Snake Island ...

Off the western coast of temporarily occupied Crimea and toward Snake Island, gas has been burning from wells for more than ...

TASS/. The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) garrison of 82 servicemen at the Snake (Zmeiny) Island in the Black Sea voluntarily surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces, Russian Defense Ministry ...

striped sea snake. The post also included the headline of a news report to a November 2023 report from local news organisation KBC News about the spotting of a black-banded sea krait near the ...