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 ...

Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine’s ... in sub-freezing temperatures. The Black Sea can be unforgiving, and so can its hazardous coastline. On the way back our dirigible boat got ...

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

The flight of Russian forces from Snake Island Thursday, after protracted attacks by Ukraine, offers hope that more grain shipments will make it through Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea blockade.

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 ...

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 ...

After Russian forces took control of the sea's Snake Island soon after ... If more costly losses in the Black Sea remain a risk for Russia, then why would Putin return there?

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.

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 ...