Russian soldiers withdrew Thursday from Snake Island, a small but significant outpost in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian victory doesn’t signal a major change in the course of the war, but it does ...

Six months into Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion ... as well as control of Snake Island, the strategic and symbolic Black Sea location bitterly fought over since the start ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, little has been done to contain Russia’s consolidated dominance in the murky waters ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the opening ... In June, Russian troops withdrew from Ukraine's Snake Island in the Black Sea. Ukraine said that it drove Russian forces from the ...

Ukraine has captured oil rigs in the Black Sea as ... production towers near Snake Island, a Ukrainian territory that lies close to Romania's east coast, leaving Putin very desperate.

Newly-released footage appears to show Ukrainian troops dramatically liberating a key Black Sea outpost from Vladimir ... important operation" on Snake Island back in June 2022.

Three years after Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in which the bulk of Kyiv’s navy was sunk, Russia’s Black Sea ... the isolated Snake Island off the southern coast ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

SNAKE ISLAND, Ukraine—This rocky patch of land about 20 miles off the coast still bears the scars of the relentless Ukrainian assault to take it back. The Black Sea island is littered with the ...