Ukraine Raises Flag on Snake Island; Russia Responds by Striking the Island

Ukraine Raises Flag on Snake Island; Russia Responds by Striking the Island
Police officers inspect a building of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 6, 2022. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters
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KYIV—Ukrainian forces raised their national flag on a Black Sea island on Thursday as a symbol of defiance against Moscow, but Russian forces consolidated gains in eastern Ukraine and probed the defences of potential new targets.

Moscow responded to the flag-raising ceremony fast. It said one of its warplanes had struck Snake Island shortly afterwards and destroyed part of the Ukrainian detachment there.