{"id":1534182,"date":"2022-06-30T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534182"},"modified":"2022-06-30T19:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:19:49","slug":"russian-forces-abandon-snake-island-scene-of-ukrainian-sailors-debunked-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-forces-abandon-snake-island-scene-of-ukrainian-sailors-debunked-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Forces Abandon Snake Island, Scene Of Ukrainian Sailors\u2019 Debunked Defiance"},"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\">22<\/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%2Frussian-forces-abandon-snake-island-scene-of-ukrainian-sailors-debunked-defiance%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=1534182&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\">Russian<\/a> troops have left Snake Island, the strategic site off the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0that was at the center of a since debunked myth\u00a0about Ukrainian sailors\u2019 defiance in the face of death during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ukrainians-soldiers-who-told-russian-warship-to-go-f-yourself-reportedly-still-alive\">opening days<\/a> of the war between the nations.<\/p>\n<p>Russia dubbed the withdrawal from its island garrison \u201ca gesture of goodwill\u201d to prove it wasn\u2019t blocking Ukrainian grain exports. But a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/30\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-snake-island.html\">New York Times report<\/a>\u00a0suggested that Russia\u2019s navy has been pushed back from coastal Ukraine thanks to anti-ship missiles and materiel provided by NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKABOOM! No Russian troops on the Snake Island anymore. Our Armed Forces did a great job,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndriyYermak\/status\/1542427080255836160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1542427080255836160%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2F2022%2F06%2F30%2Frussia-withdraw-snake-island-ukraine-war%2F\"> Andriy Yermak<\/a>, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office, tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sea island, \u00a022 miles off the Ukrainian coast, is strategically important because it can serve as a chokepoint to restrict traffic from the major port of Odessa and other Black Sea ports. But it is highly vulnerable to attack from the land, air and sea and both Ukrainian and Russian garrisons on the island have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-61992491\">described<\/a> as \u201csitting ducks\u201d by military analysts.<\/p>\n<p>With the island back under Ukrainian control, grain shipments originating from Ukraine\u2019s coast may more easily continue to foreign ports.\u00a0Russia and Ukraine combine to produce roughly 30% of the world\u2019s wheat, and the war is already being blamed for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/last-year-biden-bragged-about-16-cents-in-fourth-of-july-cookout-savings-this-year-prices-rose-by-double-digits\">rising food costs<\/a> in the U.S. It could be far more devastating in parts of Africa, where up to 80 percent of grain imports come from the region and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russia-is-blocking-ukraine-from-exporting-food-threatening-africa-with-starvation\">widespread famine and starvation<\/a>\u00a0are increasing possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Even after abandoning the island, Russia maintains significant clout in the Black Sea with its fleet of ships and submarines. While some experts see the withdrawal as a turning point for the blockade, others believe such declarations are premature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilitarily, it has weakened the blockade,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/06\/30\/russia-withdraw-snake-island-ukraine-war\/\">Jeffrey Edmonds, a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analysis<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cBut it\u2019s not essential to the blockade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no denying the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory offers a welcome morale boost for a battered nation.\u00a0Concerns about Ukraine\u2019s prospects in a protracted military conflict have magnified as the war drags into its fourth month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/28\/zelensky-maybe-tells-biden-he-wants-war-over-by-winter\/\">Reports<\/a> on private comments made by Zelensky to members of the G7 suggest that he had hoped for an end to the war by the end of the year, before winter sets in and makes conditions even more harsh.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, by contrast, appears to believe that time is on his side and that the Western nations are unlikely to escalate their support for Ukraine or continue their economic sanctions indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe work is going smoothly, rhythmically,\u201d Putin recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/30\/world\/europe\/putin-russia-nato-ukraine.html\">said<\/a> of the fighting. \u201cThere is no need to talk about the timing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian troops have left Snake Island, the strategic site off the coast of Ukraine\u00a0that was at the center of a since debunked myth\u00a0about Ukrainian sailors\u2019 defiance in the face of death during the\u00a0opening days of the war between the nations. Russia dubbed the withdrawal from its island garrison \u201ca gesture of goodwill\u201d to prove it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":1534208,"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-1534182","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\/1534182","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}