Ukrainians trapped on Snake Island to the Russians demanding their give up: ‘go f*ck your self.’

The 13 Ukrainian border guards stationed on a rocky Black Sea landmass often called Snake Island might need identified they had been doomed when the Russian warship referred to as for his or her give up Thursday throughout the first full day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“It is a Russian warship,” the invaders radioed to the guards. “I suggest you lay down arms and give up to keep away from bloodshed and pointless victims. In any other case, you’ll be bombed.”

“Russian warship, go f*ck your self,” the Ukrainians responded.

Later within the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the guards had “died heroically” defending the island, also called Zmiinyi, in response to a report in Ukrayinska Pravda.

Based on the report, the Russians fired on the island from the ship after which hit the island with “fight plane.”

“Late within the night, the State Border Service reported that communication with the border guards…was misplaced,” the report states.

“On our Snake Island, defending it to the final, all of the border guards died heroically,” Zelenskyy stated. “However they didn’t give in. All of them will likely be awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously. Everlasting reminiscence to those that gave their lives for Ukraine.”

The sacrifice of these on Snake Island quickly turned a web-based rallying cry for his or her countrymen and people worldwide who’re rooting for the embattled but still-free Ukrainians to win out towards the bigger, authoritarian Russian pressure.

One American Twitter person famous that the guards’ defiant profanity ought to be “placed on a command crest.”

Quickly, the crest was created, and the battle for Ukraine raged on.