The twin-engine, two-seat aircraft – designed for both air superiority and ground attack – crashed for unknown reasons, the ...

Whoever controls the island can at any moment block the movement of civilian vessels in all directions to the south of ...

It’s both tempting and normal to focus on the land when it comes to conflict and war. This is where the majority of the ...

Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, sits about 30 miles off the southern tip of the Ukrainian mainland in the northwestern Black Sea. It's about 185 miles west of Crimea, the Ukrainian ...

Ukraine’s recapture of Snake Island came months after Russia took it in the opening weeks of the war. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER/AFP via Getty Images A Russian rocket strike on the town of ...

RIGA, Latvia — Russian forces say they have withdrawn from Ukraine’s Snake Island, a highly contested speck of land in the Black Sea they captured shortly after the start of the war ...

Even amid the Snake Island victory against Russia, President Joe Biden still needs to create a plan that ensures more grain shipments will make it through Vladimir Putin's Black Sea blockade. REUTERS ...

Snake Island is part of the Odesa region, through which much of Ukraine’s agricultural wealth travels to global markets. In normal times, Ukraine would export around three-quarters of the grain ...

Snake Island has actually been fought over before, but only in the courts. Romania and Ukraine had a long-running territorial dispute over the island and the surrounding seabed, which may contain ...