Zmiinyi (Snake) Island is located 30 miles south of Ukraine’s mainland in the Black Sea

BREAKING:
It’s official – 🇺🇦 Snake Island sailors are alive, Navy confirms.
They were taken prisoner by Russia.

— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) February 28, 2022

This afternoon.

On Friday, a Ukrainian official said all 13 guards stationed at Snake Island had been killed by Russian forces.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised to decorate the guards.

He said:

“On our Zmiinyi Island, defending it to the last, all the border guards died heroically.

“But they did not give up. All of them will be posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.”

Friday: Snake Island: Ukraine says soldiers killed after refusing to surrender (BBC)