President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recorded a video address to Ukrainians on the 500th day of the full-scale war.
Quote from Zelenskyy: "500 days of full-scale war.
Zmiinyi. A free island in a free Ukraine.
I am grateful to everyone who fought here against the occupiers. We honoured the memory of the heroes who gave their lives in this battle, one of the most important during the full-scale war.
Glory to every man and woman who is fighting for the sake of security in our Black Sea!"
Details: Kyrylo Budanov, the Chief of Defence Intelligence, and Andrii Yermak, the Head of the Office of the President, came to the island along with the president and the military.
Background: Zelenskyy visited Türkiye yesterday, on 7 July.
The day before yesterday, he was in Czechia, and the day before that, he was in Bulgaria.
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TheSorge on July 8th, 2023 at 09:15 UTC »
It's funny how Russian propaganda tries to pass off this dude as some weak, immasculine, drugged-out NATO puppet when he repeatedly goes into active combat zones. Snake Island hasn't seen any fighting in a good while, but it's still somewhere the Black Sea Fleet could've theoretically attacked during the visit.
SupremeMisterMeme on July 8th, 2023 at 07:52 UTC »
And with this act, no matter what putin now does, he'll forever go down in history as a pathetic, scared, little bitch.
And to imagine that his goal was a complete opposite of that.. fate sure works in interesting ways.
Infamous_Comment3165 on July 8th, 2023 at 07:17 UTC »
To this day, those five words spoken by that Ukrainian soldier on Snake Island, still make me smile. Slava Ukraini.