Zelenskyy visits Snake Island to mark 500 days of war, as Russian rockets kill at least 8 in eastern Ukraine
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked 500 days of war by releasing a video on Saturday that showed him visiting Snake Island in the Black Sea. It is not clear when the video was filmed, as Zelenskyy was visiting Turkey on Saturday.
"Today we are on Zmiinyi Island - on our Zmiinyi Island, which will never be conquered by the occupier, like the whole of Ukraine, because we are a country of the brave," Zelenskyy said in the video. He laid flowers at a memorial on the island and then released wreaths onto the water.
Soldiers on the island were immortalized by their fiery response to Russian troops who demanded surrender early in the war. The island was later captured by Russian forces, as were its Ukrainian defenders. Those Ukrainian soldiers were later freed as part of a prisoner exchange.
