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The Russian Defense Ministry stated that on the night of July 7, the Ukrainians tried to “symbolically deliver the flag” to the Serpent’s Island due to “military failures and the massive retreat of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass.”
Several Ukrainian soldiers landed on the island from a motorboat around 5:00 am and then took pictures with the flag.
“The aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces immediately struck with high-precision missiles <...> some of the Ukrainian military personnel were destroyed,” the ministry said.
The remaining Ukrainian military fled to the Odessa region, the Defense Ministry added.
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Russia's defense ministry said on Thursday that a Russian warplane struck Ukraine's Snake Island in the Black Sea overnight and killed an unspecified number of Ukrainian troops, shortly after Ukrainian troops claimed to have raised their flag over the island.
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Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian President's chief of staff, posted a video on Telegram on Thursday of three soldiers raising a large Ukrainian flag on the island, from which Russian forces withdrew on June 30 after coming under heavy bombardment from Ukrainian artillery.