People are in love with it,” Smelyansky tells me. Even when the air-raid sirens sound, people refuse to leave their place in the line.” He says he asked the public for suggestions for a stamp in the first days of the war. A shortlist of 50 designs was put to a vote; the warship was the triumphant winner. “It was democratic, just like Ukraine,” he says. NOTE: I haven’t included the Japanese characters here, obviously, and there is no direct English translation. The words provided are a phonetic interpretation of the spoken word. New Zealand (Maori)

When they pulled into port the priest still hoped he might be set free. He was, after all, a civilian engaged on a humanitarian mission. The Russians didn’t see it that way. They shoved him and two dozen other non-combatants into a minivan and drove them at gunpoint to a naval watchtower. Over the next 11 days he was interrogated up to three times a day. They were promising us jobs, money, a career in Russia,” Hotskiy says. “No one was ready to accept their offer.” Around midday Hotskiy found himself in the radio transmission station, together with two other frontier service colleagues whom he declines to name for their own safety. This was a secure area. He draws me a map of the building – a room of medium size, modern in design, with beige walls and two office tables, not far from the lighthouse. Russian warship: "Snake Island, I, Russian warship, repeat the offer: put down your arms and surrender, or you will be bombed. Have you understood me? Do you copy?" Times, The Moscow (30 March 2022). "Ukraine Honors Soldier Who Cursed Out Russian Warship". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022 . Retrieved 14 April 2022.The worst moment came in late March, when the guards stripped him naked and put him a freezing punishment cell with rubber walls. He spent three days there. It was too cold to sit or lie down, and impossible to sleep. On day two he began to hallucinate. “By the end I had already said goodbye to life. I didn’t think I would survive. It was like being in a film about an extermination camp. Except everything was real,” he says. As he gives his account Vyrozub is crying. His breath falls in large gasps. suspilne. "Розвінчуємо фейки на Українському Радіо"[Debunking fakes on Ukrainian Radio]. corp.suspilne.media (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 3 June 2022 . Retrieved 3 June 2022. On 13 April 2022, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych and Odesa governor Maksym Marchenko said that Moskva had been hit by two Neptune anti-ship missiles and was on fire in rough seas. [28] A source at the Pentagon in the US later confirmed that Moskva had been hit by Ukrainian missiles. [29] Russian state-owned news agencies said the ship was badly damaged and its crew was evacuated due to a "fire" from "detonated ammunition." [30] The ship sank while being towed to a naval base. [31] Russian troops were garrisoned on the island until late June 2022, when the Ukrainian military successfully retook the island. [32] The island currently houses a small observational detachment under Ukrainian control. [33] Reception [ edit ] In March 2022, Ukrainian band Botashe released a song titled "PNH" ( Ukrainian: ПНХ), which predominantly features the phrase. [55] Harry and Meghan’s bombshell Netflix documentary today unleashed a series of incendiary claims labelling Britain a ‘racist’ country – and linking the debate over Brexit to racism and ‘horrible views’.

The Russian hit him in the stomach with a rifle butt and said: “You don’t have a first or last name here. What you have here is a number. And your God is not here either.”

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I have not yet begun to fight!” Attributed to John Paul Jones at the Battle of Flamborough Head in response to a British offer of surrender. Outnumbered and cut off, the situation hopeless, the garrison apparently laid down its weapons. Hotskiy and all the other frontier service personnel were loaded into a tug boat and taken, blindfolded, to the naval base in Sevastopol, a 24-hour sea journey. “They didn’t say anything. We didn’t see anything,” he says now. Snake Island: Ukraine says soldiers killed after refusing to surrender". BBC News. 25 February 2022. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023 . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

Russian Warship Moskva Is Featured in New Ukrainian Postage Stamp". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 15 April 2022. According to The Iceberg Project, this may be the most offensive way to tell someone off in Italian. (I think that’s supposed to be some sort of warning, but to me it sounds like a challenge. Portugal (Cursing in Portuguese) The Week compared the phrase to " Remember the Alamo" from the 19th century Texas Revolution. [38] The Small Wars Journal likened the phrase to other notable battle taunts such as " Molon labe" ("come and take [them]"), from the Battle of Thermopylae, and " Nuts!," from the Battle of the Bulge, amongst other phrases. [39] The audio of the interaction was originally posted by the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda. [15] The exchange, which took place in Russian, has been translated as: [16]Regarding the actions of the Russian Federation near Snake Island]. Ukrainian Navy. 28 February 2022. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022 . Retrieved 5 March 2022– via Facebook. Щодо морських піхотинців та прикордордонників, яких взяли в полон російські окупанти на острові Зміїний. Ми дуже раді дізнатися про те, що наші побратими живі і з ними все добре![As for the Marines and frontier guards captured by the Russian occupiers on Snake Island. We are very happy to learn that our brothers are alive and well!] [ self-published source?] Sasse, Ben (28 February 2022). "Sasse: Tell Ukraine's Story, Arm These Heroes" (Press Release). Ben Sasse: U.S. Senator for Nebraska (Press release). Archived from the original on 5 March 2022 . Retrieved 5 March 2022. Latvian MP swears at Russia in Ukraine protest walkout". BBC. 23 February 2023. Archived from the original on 24 February 2023 . Retrieved 24 February 2023. The queue outside Kyiv’s central post office is spectacular. It begins on the steps, stretches along the capital’s independence square and runs all the way up Borysa Hrinchenka, a street named after the compiler of the first Ukrainian dictionary. Scuffles break out as a woman tries to force her way into the post office’s high-ceilinged vestibule. What is going on? Three days earlier, Igor Smelyansky, general director of Ukrposhta, the national postal service, released a new stamp. It shows a generic Ukrainian soldier giving the middle finger to a large grey battleship: the Moskva. On the margins of the perforated sheets are the words “Russian warship, go ... ” and “Glory to Ukraine, to the heroes, glory”. Varga, John (27 February 2022). " 'Go f*** yourself!' Captain refuses to fuel Russian ship in Ukraine solidarity act – VIDEO". Daily Express. OCLC 173337077. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022 . Retrieved 4 March 2022.