A fierce battle broke out around Snake Island between Russia and Ukraine, and the sea, land and air played together, and both sides showed their true skills.
Watching the situation of the War between Russia and Ukraine every day, it feels like life is repeating every day, the two sides are playing position warfare in Donbass, especially near Ijum, today this capture of a village, will soon form a big siege of Donbass, tomorrow the other side in the other direction to seize an area, said that the threat of the north of Kharkiv is eliminated, Kharkov is no longer shelled. Then it is often said that a brigade of the other side was destroyed, considering that there were some brigades of the Russian army, and then it was said that Ukraine had sunk a Russian type 11356 frigate, and then someone said that the frigate had returned to port, just wanted to pay attention, and found that there was still nothing to eat.
I saw a friend in the comment area who had a very vivid description of this glue, saying that he had originally killed chickens and monkeys, and now he and chickens have come and gone.
However, these two days finally have a point of view, Russia and Ukraine have fought a battle around Snake Island, the scale is not very large, but it is very lively, the navy, army and air force are used, and Russia and Ukraine have provided video of the engagement.
Ukraine released two videos, one showing two Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jets from the south of Snake Island ultra-low altitude into the attack route, from the video screen, the flight altitude is even significantly lower than the lighthouse at the southern end of the island, and then drop bombs, and then throw jamming bombs, small angles to pull away. Entering from this direction, there is also the advantage of attacking the two main targets of the island at once, the building complex in the center of the island and the complex near the dock, because if the Russian troops stationed there are resting at night, it is likely that they will be in these two complexes. The video shows violent explosions in both complexes after being shot. In order to shoot this video, Ukraine specially sent a TB2 drone as a live photographer. The next day, on May 8, the photos showed that the two buildings were indeed badly damaged.
Another video shows that on the same day, the Ukrainian TB2 drone also air raided Snake Island, sank a Type 11770 landing craft, hit a building, and the task of this boat may be to transport the Doyle anti-aircraft missile launcher to the island, and the missile launcher was still unloaded on the landing craft during the air raid. This operation weakened the air defense capability of Snake Island, which was of course very helpful for the later air raids of the Su-27. Of course, if the cruiser Moscow is still alive and the radar missiles are not sick, the Ukrainian army may not dare to act easily.
But soon the Russian side also came out of the news, saying that they used snake island to make a decoy, the Russian army actually left the snake island in advance, the bombing of the Ukrainian Su 27 pounced, and then the Russian army waited for the Helicopters and Assault Boats of the Ukrainian Army to send the infantry to the island, and immediately launched an attack with the Air space Force, killing the Fighters, Helicopters and Armored Assault Boats of the Ukrainian Army, and the result was that the surviving Ukrainian Army could only return to the Ukrainian mainland in rubber boats. Counting down, the Russian army has lost a total of one patrol boat, one landing craft, two assault boats, a Doyle, a J-10 anti-aircraft missile launcher, and a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun near Snake Island in the past few days. Destroyed and lost one Su-27, one Su-24, two TB2s, three helicopters and part infantry, as well as an armored assault boat.
However, Ukraine also released a video showing that the Russian military sent a helicopter to re-land on the island, and when it was organizing infantry to leave the plane, the helicopter was hit by a Ukrainian missile, which the Ukrainian side said was hit by a drone launch missile. Judging from the clarity of the thermal imaging picture on the video, it is relatively clear, and it is indeed like the Ukrainian military drone shooting.
Both sides said that the other had suffered serious losses, and this time both sides may not be wrong. After all, before the red square parade, both sides hoped that some achievements would add to each other's blockage. If the Ukrainian army can retake Snake Island, it may constitute a great suppression of the Russian Navy's activities along the Black Sea coast. The Russian army was able to use Snake Island as bait this time, fight a counterattack, and also consolidate the control of the Black Sea and its own face.
A small snake island has actually become the most three-dimensional battlefield in this war. Moreover, it is likely that this will not be the last war on Snake Island.