The most famous incident of the start of the Russian invasion of those parts of Ukraine it did not already occupy was Snake Island. Heroicly its defenders told the captain of a Russian warship to “Go F…” themselves. It now appears they have obeyed this request, The BBC’s Sophie Williams reports from Kyiv:
General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, has thanked "everyone who is helping to defend Ukrainian land" following the news that Russia has withdrawn from Snake Island.
He says Russian forces were "unable to withstand" Ukrainian artillery, missiles and air strikes on the island.
"Thank you to the defenders of Odesa, who took maximum measures to liberate a strategically important part of our territory," he says.
He also thanks Ukraine's foreign partners for "providing the means of defeat".
Слава Україні!