Russia withdraws from Snake Island: Moscow's forces abandon strategic Black Sea outpost

Russia on Thursday withdrew from Snake Island, a craggy speck of land in the Black Sea, handing Ukraine a symbolically potent political victory and depriving Moscow of a strategic outpost for its air defences and electronic warfare systems.

Lifting the spirit of Kyiv residents worn down by Russia's grinding eastern advance, Ukraine's military said on Thursday it had driven Russia from the island with artillery and missile strikes.
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[donaldhysa]

" as a gesture of good will we completed our tasks there and retreated." Thats one hell of a sentence

[SeeLasSee]

USA should open up a consulate on Snake Island after the war. It’s been getting so much traffic.

[electronicfarts]

Russia's gesture of ''Goodwill'' oh my heart is melting....

[matthew]

"a gesture of goodwill" hahahahahaha

[Diggnuts]

Next they will give back Kherson in good faith, Crimea as a gesture of friendship and the east as a proclamation of trust....

[nozhki-busha]

"a gesture of goodwill" lol yeah right! Slava Ukraini!

[leerob]

"" Gesture of good will"" 🤣😂They have a funny way of admitting defeat . Glory to Ukraine!!!

[PeterSedesse]

Ukraine doesn't have a navy and has now sunk the Russian flagship and forced Russia to retreat off of an island.

[michaelerzuah]

Doesn't really make sense for Russia to keep Snake Island given how vulnerable it is to Ukrainian attacks

[ObeySilence]

Good Will. 😂 It´s like starting a fight getting beaten up and when you are save you say. I didn´t manage to punch out of good will. Thanks for that Realsatire Russia

[raymondk]

Hes not only scraping the bottom of the pan, hes also scraped up the bottom. He needs those men and materials elsewheres 🤣🤣

[janes]

Russia, awkward as always, they are not loosing, they are showing good will 🤮

[zazaza]

Ukrainian soldiers retreating from Severodonetsk = "tactical withdrawal", symbolic victory for Russia.
Russian soldiers leaving Snake island = amazing, big victory for Ukraine.

[alankusevitsky]

Nothing quite like a missile strike to get a voluntary withdrawal in motion.

[elizabethnjoki]

The Island has made coral reefs out of Russian vessels .

[gracie]

It would be a better gesture if they leave Ukraine for good.🇺🇦❤🇺🇦

[toniwilson]

3 months with significant loss of life and resources to take a tiny remote island, but it was all just a faint! Aha! Putler the master strategist has fooled us all again!

[elmerkilred]

COBRA COMMANDER pulled out as a gesture of GOODWILL!!!

[pentegarn]

I can hear Achilles's ghost praising the bravery of Ukraine!

[chietthach]

Putin stop bringing your rusty toys over and abandoned on some one else border