The last four fell with honors. As Vladimir Putin embarked on a massive war in Ukraine, a Russian ship headed for Serpents’ Island, a large rock 500 meters across the Black Sea, which has long been the subject of dispute between Ukraine and Romania. Summoned to surrender, 13 Ukrainian soldiers refused on Thursday. And they sent one last message to the enemy before they died: “Fuck you”
“It is the Russian warship. I suggest you lay down your arms and capitulate lest the blood of unnecessary victims be shed. Otherwise, you will be under the bombs, ”says an officer through a megaphone, according to a recording published by Ukrainian media.
posthumous medal
“It’s the end,” breathes a Ukrainian soldier. “Should I tell him to fuck off?” he asks a sister-in-arms. who answers in the affirmative. He then cranks up the volume and replies, “Russian ship, fuck you. »
All 13 border guards were killed by an airstrike and artillery fire. “They died as heroes,” greeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a speech on Thursday evening. He specified that they would be decorated, posthumously, with the medal of “hero of Ukraine”.