Snake Island, located off the coast of Brazil, is considered one of the most dangerous places on Earth. With an estimated 430 ...

N ot many people visit Snake Island each year, and there is a very good reason for that. Ilha da Queimada Grande, as it’s known in Portuguese, is a rocky island located off the coast of Brazil ...

Snake Island has actually been fought over before, but only in the courts. Romania and Ukraine had a long-running territorial dispute over the island and the surrounding seabed, ...

The Ukrainian Navy has confirmed the Ukrainian heroes of Snake Island, feared dead after they told a Russian warship 'go f*** yourself', are alive. The 13 troops on the tiny Black Sea island, 186 ...

Sailors who were trying to rescue Ukrainian troops from Snake Island were instead captured along with the soldiers — and now they've been freed in a prisoner exchange, Ukraine announced on Thursday.

Western analysts called Russia’s expulsion from Snake Island a symbolic as well as strategic victory for Kyiv. For Russian forces, said Mason Clark at the Institute for the Study of War, it was ...

Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine’s folklore, now more than ever. Its defiant defense – when a Russian warship was famously told to “go f*** yourself” – and then reconquest ...

It is just 46 acres of rock and grass with no fresh water (and no snakes either), but Snake Island in the Black Sea has taken on a totemic significance in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.