The Snake Island campaign was a series of battles for Snake Island, a small rocky island in the Black Sea near the mouth of the Danube, at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the invasion, Russian warships, including the cruiser Moskva, attacked the island and demanded that its Ukrainian border guards surrender, and the island was captured. The guards were thought at first to have died, but they were in fact taken prisoner and later exchanged. The island's position gave it value for controlling shipping routes in the northwest Black Sea. Ukraine used missiles and drones to attack Russian positions and ships there, and the Russian forces withdrew from the island at the end of June 2022.
Before and after
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- from 2 January 2022 to 11 January 20222022 Kazakh unrest
- from 21 February 2022 to 17 February 2024Battle of Avdiivka
- 24 February 2022Full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war
- 24 February 2022Snake Island campaign
- 24 February 2022Kyiv Offensive (2022)
- from 24 February 2022 to 1 March 2022Capture of Melitopol
- from 24 February 2022 to 28 February 2022Battle of Berdiansk
- from 25 February 2022 to 8 April 2022Battle of Mykolaiv
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