Snake Island. Photo / Supplied
One of the two Russian warships that attacked Snake Island, a sliver of land in the Black Sea, has been destroyed, according to Ukrainian military sources.
The Vasily Bykov, a large patrol corvette commissioned in December 2018, appears to have been hit during a firefight in the early hours of yesterday.
The destruction of 30 Russian helicopters at Kherson is still unconfirmed, as is the damaging of the Russian Navy ship Vasily Bykov by a Ukrainian BM-21 Grad MRL.https://t.co/vrkiV8XkrP
— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) March 8, 2022
Video shared by the Ukrainian navy showed rocket exchange, followed by the sound of two men trying to work out whether they hit the ship.
"We f***ing hit them", one of the men confirms.
The second man invokes the Ukrainian soldier's words from when the island was attacked, saying:
"Russian warship, go f*** yourself."