On the first day of the invasion, “Moscow” ordered the Ukrainian garrison on Snake Island to surrender and the radio operator replied, “Russian warship, go fuck yourself.” The Russians attacked and captured Ukrainian soldiers who guarded the island. But then Ukraine sank “Moscow” with a projectile maneuvering “Neptun” and retrieved Snake Island. Ukrainian drones sent at least 5 another Russian units to the seabed. In the years 2023 and 2024, the Russian Black Sea fleet was searched. The remaining ships left the base in Sevastopol and sailed east, to Novorossian, allowing commercial shipping to resume from 3 coastal towns: Odessa, Black Sea and Piwdenny.
