Russian troops have likely lost a Su-30SM fighter jet that was carrying out a mission southeast of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island.

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 ...

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RIGA, Latvia — Russian forces say they have withdrawn from Ukraine’s Snake Island, a highly contested speck of land in the Black Sea they captured shortly after the start of the war ...

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 ...