Last month, the British Department of Defense said that if Russia could consolidate its position on Snake Island with strategic air defense and coastal defense cruise missiles, it could dominate the northwestern Black Sea.
Ukrainian Southern Army Command wrote on Facebook that Russian troops had evacuated on two boats following an operation involving missiles and artillery units.
Zelensky’s chief of staff, Yermak, said Ukrainian troops had expelled Russian troops from the island, saying Russia’s claim that the withdrawal was in good faith was not true.
He reiterated Ukraine’s accusations that Russia is causing a global food crisis by blocking Ukrainian ports and targeting storage facilities.
Since Russia’s invasion on February 24, Ukraine’s grain transport from the Black Sea port has stagnated, trapping millions of tons of grain in silos.
Moscow says Kieu is responsible for removing mines from the port to open the transport lane, and western sanctions on it are exacerbating the situation.
Local authorities said Russia was ready to dig up the port and resume grain shipments when the first cargo ship departed from the Russian-occupied Berdyans’k port in the Sea of Azov in eastern Ukraine. Said on Thursday.
Russia and Ukraine account for almost one-third of the world’s wheat supply, Russia is also the world’s major fertilizer exporter, and Ukraine is the world’s major exporter of corn and sunflower oil.