However, Snake Island is a mere 45km (28 miles) away from the coast of Romania, which is part of the West's Nato alliance. UK naval analyst Jonathan Bentham believes a Russian S-400 air missile ...

Romania and Ukraine have solved a forty-year-old border dispute over a large petrol and gas-rich area of the Black Sea, as the International Court of Justice of the UN yesterday (3 February ...

A series of fires have erupted in Russia's Black Sea waters near a Ukrainian island, and no one knows why or how they started.

Holding Snake Island completed an effective blockade of ... Russian control of the island represented a threat to Nato member Romania - both its key port of Constanta and traffic in the mouth ...

Moscow's soldiers had targeted Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, in the first hours of the invasion effort beginning on February 24, 2022. It sits close to Romania in the northwestern ...

Zelenskyy, in his nightly video message on Thursday, responded with defiance, saying that the two-month operation to retake Snake Island was a warning to all Russian forces. "Let every Russian ...