Ukraine says it will posthumously honour a group of Ukrainian border guards who were killed after they reportedly told an officer on board a Russian navy warship to “go f— yourself” when asked to surrender.
The 13 border guards were defending the tiny Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, in the Black Sea during Russia’s multi-pronged invasion.
All the soldiers died after the Russians reportedly launched a strike on the island when the Ukrainian troops refused to surrender. Read more: Canada providing cyber ‘support’ to Ukraine against Russian invasion.
Here’s what we know “All border guards died heroically but did not give up,” Zelenskyy said. In an unverified recording of the clip, first released by Ukrainian news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda, a Russian official tells the Snake Island guards: “This is a military warship.