Defending Ukraine
"I am a Russian warship.""I ask you to lay down your arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary deaths.""Otherwise , you will be bombed.""Russian warship.""Go f--- yourself."
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| Audio has emerged of a dramatic standoff between Russian forces attempting to capture Snake Island off the coast of Ukraine and those charged with defending it. |
Positioned on a desolate rocky island, a small team of Ukrainian border guards received a message warning them of immediate peril should they refuse to surrender the outpost. The Ukrainian response was immediate and visceral; they had no intention whatever of attempting to preserve their lives at the cost of surrendering to a Russian military vessel, part of the invasion pounding targets across Ukraine with bombs and missiles.
The predictable result of their defiance against all odds, with full knowledge that instead of surrendering their duty to defend their country, they were surrendering their lives willingly, the Russians opened fire with a series of bombs. And before long all thirteen border guards were dead. The stand on the Black Sea lifted Ukrainian morale and pride in themselves, refusing to bow to Russian tyranny.
The thirteen Russian border guards had stood down the grim orders to betray their country's trust in its servicemen and in so doing became heroes that championed their nation's honour and aspirations to remain free and at liberty to make decisions leading it toward increasing democracy and away from the stultifying, degradation of remaining a vassal state of the Russian Federation.
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| Snake Island, in the Black Sea. Image credit: Ukraine MoD |
They were being awarded with the highest honour their country could bestow on men who exhibited extraordinary courage in the face of an enemy onslaught, the 'Hero of Ukraine' titled honorific award. The Ukrainian news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda posted on their website a copy of the recording of the dramatically terse and sinister conversation between the Ukrainian border agents and the Russian vessel.
Another recording was posted on TikTok, illustrating a border guard in helmet and balaclava on the atoll Zmiinyi Island (Snake Island) cursing under fire. He was a 23-year-old,from Odessa, a Ukrainian port city on the Black Sea. The border guards had attempted to secure the island on Thursday for hours, before they were killed.
The 42-acre, sparsely populated island sits on the edge of Ukraine's territorial waters, a strategic area within the Black Sea that connects a shipping corridor to the cities of Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson, Ukraine.
Labels: Invasion, Russia, Russian War Crimes, Ukraine, War
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, February 27, 2022
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