{"id":1341381,"date":"2022-02-25T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1341381"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:08:34","slug":"ukrainian-soldiers-defending-snake-island-tell-russian-warship-go-f-yourself-before-being-massacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-soldiers-defending-snake-island-tell-russian-warship-go-f-yourself-before-being-massacred\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Soldiers Defending Snake Island Tell Russian Warship \u201cGo F\u2014 Yourself\u201d Before Being Massacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukrainian-soldiers-defending-snake-island-tell-russian-warship-go-f-yourself-before-being-massacred%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1341381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled-design-2022-02-24T210937.644-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Thirteen Ukrainian soldiers refused to surrender an island to a Russian warship and in a final act of defiance told their attackers to &#8220;\u2026go f*ck yourself!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>A report of the incident reads &#8220;All defenders of the island of Zmiinyi died, but did not surrender. All of them will be names Heroes of Ukraine,&#8221; said Ukrainian President Zelensky.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The island the Ukrainian soldiers were defending with their lives was captured by Russian forces after the massacre.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;All the defenders of the island of Zmiinyi died, but did not surrender. All of them will be named Heroes of Ukraine.\u201d said Ukrainian President Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Official confirmation that Zmiinyi\/Serpent Island has been captured by Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Caucasuswar\/status\/1496981935226339330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The soldiers were stationed on the small border island of Zmiinyi in the Black Sea. A Russian warship ordered them to surrender. Zmiinyi, translated into English as Snake Island, is located approximately 30 miles off Ukraine&#8217;s coast, and has a total land area less than 1\/10th of a square mile.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The Russian warship told the Ukrainian defenders via radio, &#8220;This is a Russian military ship. I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary victims. Otherwise we will open fire on you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The border defenders replied, &#8220;Russian warship, go f*ck yourself!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The Russian warship then reportedly opened fire on the island and killed all 13 soldiers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A group of Ukrainian border guards were stationed on Snake Island, in the Black Sea south of Odessa, when a Russian warship ordered them to surrender under threat of attack. <\/p>\n<p>Their response: &#8220;Russian warship, go fuck yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They held their ground. All 13 were killed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GMRsXQRSX0\">pic.twitter.com\/GMRsXQRSX0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aletweetsnews\/status\/1497008826201124870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aletweetsnews\/status\/1497008826201124870\">recording<\/a> of the exchange was posted to social media and quickly went viral.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Ukrainian President Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukrainian-border-guards-on-zmiinyi-island-died-as-heroes-zelensky-says-2022-2\">confirmed the story<\/a> in a statement and said he will honor the soldiers posthumously with the &#8220;Hero of Ukraine&#8221; award for their bravery. &#8220;All the defenders of the island of Zmiinyi died but did not surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>According to Zelensky, at least 137 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far after Russia invaded Ukraine. An additional 316 wounded.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;May the memory of those who gave their lives for Ukraine live forever,&#8221; Zelensky added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen Ukrainian soldiers refused to surrender an island to a Russian warship and in a final act of defiance told their attackers to &#8220;\u2026go f*ck yourself!&#8221;A report of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}