The UK Ministry of Defense said in its intelligence report that Russia has highly likely withdrawn from Snake Island owing to the isolation of the garrison and its increasing vulnerability to Ukrainian strikes, rather than as a ‘gesture of good will’, as it has claimed.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on 30 June that its soldiers had evacuated from Snake Island in the northwestern Black Sea. Russia took the island on the first day of the invasion, and it is located in the key maritime channels to Odesa and its neighboring ports.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted attacks against the Russian garrison in the past few weeks using missile and drone strikes. In addition, it used anti-ship missiles to interdict Russian naval vessels attempting re-supply the island,” the MoD said in a tweet.
Separately, Russian ground forces claim to have taken the settlement of Pryvilla, which is located northwest of the embattled Donbas town of Lysychansk, the ministry said.
Moreover, an intense battle is likely to continue for control of the high ground near the Lysychansk Oil Refinery.
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