With an area of only 0.17 square kilometers, how much is the value of the lost Snake Island base in Ukraine? Snake Island, which has recently been located on the Ukrainian side of the Black Sea, has instantly become the object of everyone's attention. A small island with an area of only 0.17 square kilometers, 13 people are naturally difficult to hold. In fact, many people will wonder why Russia has to spend so much effort to get this small island. In fact, this is related to the great value of Snake Island, which is mainly reflected in three aspects, the first is the tactical value of the Black Sea, the second is the geostrategic value that affects Moldova and Ukraine, and the second is the huge economic value. The tongue is small, but its geopolitical value is not small, as one of the few islands in Ukraine, Snake Island is extremely important for any country that wants to establish a foothold in the Black Sea. First of all, through the map we can clearly see that snake island is located in the north of the Black Sea, is the gateway to the Odessa region on the southern coast of Ukraine, at the same time, this island is also cleverly adjacent to moldova's only outlet to the sea, Transnistria, it can be said that snake island is the skill to control the Ukrainian sea outlet, but also to determine moldova to the Black Sea such a strategic place, and his west side, is Romania, especially for Ukraine, snake island is the southern barrier of the entire land, once there is no protection of snake island, Then you can land in the Odessa area, and then drive straight into the capital Kiev, or head north to the Westinghouse area, from where we can see how effective the barrier of Snake Island is. Secondly, snake island, as a small nail in the Black Sea, is the best location to observe the Black Sea, so in the former Soviet Union, the Soviet Union did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and material resources to directly stand on the island from Romania, and then used the geographical advantages of Snake Island to build it into a post for observing the Black Sea. Secondly, the influence of Snake Island on Moldova is very large, as the only passage from Moldova to the Black Sea, it can be said that mastering Snake Island means mastering the three inches of Moldova, especially in the Dezuo region of Moldova in Russia, there are a considerable number of people stationed, if you want to go to sea, Snake Island is the only way. So it's not hard to see why Russia is so interested in this small island. The second is that there is a huge economic value behind the huge geopolitical value of Snake Island. It is worth mentioning that Romania and Ukraine have always had a lot of disagreements over the ownership of this small island, especially after 2000, after the exploration team discovered a huge amount of oil and gas resources on the Black Sea continental shelf, the two countries have been more fierce around the island.
Because according to the principle of the coastal economic zone of the country to which it belongs, who occupies this small island means that who has more oil and gas exploitation rights. Because Romania does not occupy Snake Island, it can only have 1/5 of the game resources of the Black Sea continental shelf, which shows how valuable Snake Island is. Until 2002, Romania because of its accession to the European Union, and the basic condition for joining the European Union is that there can be no disputes with other countries, especially territorial disputes, so Romania in order to join the European Union, hard to give up the claim for Snake Island, confirming snake island as Ukrainian territory.
At this point, the island competition between the two countries has come to an end. In recent years, Ukraine originally intended to carry out commercial exploitation around Snake Island, but not only is it difficult to support exploitation with its own economy and technology, but also does not have a stable investment environment, which also makes foreign investors dare not easily help Ukraine to carry out commercial oil and gas exploitation. So Ukraine has never been able to get a more valuable return from the island. Now with the development of the situation, Snake Island has been a song again, do not know who will dominate the future of this island, and do not know when the resources surrounding this island will be exploited, or let us all wait and see. So today's video is here, looking forward to everyone's messages, comments, forwards, and bye-bye.