Snake Island: Black Sea

25 Jun 2022 Snake Island: Black Sea

Snake Island: Black Sea – Today Current Affairs

• Ukraine has inflicted serious damage on Russian forces in airstrikes on a land island in the Black Sea, also known as ‘Snake Island’.
• The attack on the island is believed to be the second major military success by the West using missiles delivered to Ukraine.

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Snake Island:

• Land Island, also known as Snake or Serpent Island, is a small piece of rock less than 700 meters in size, described as X-shaped.
• It is 35 km from the coast in the Black Sea. It is located far east of the mouth of the Danube and approximately south-west of the port city of Odessa.
• The Danube is the second longest river in Europe after the Volga. It rises from the Black Forest Mountains of western Germany and covers a distance of about 2,850 km.  It flows till its mouth on the Black Sea.
• The island is marked on the map by ‘Village of Byle’, it belongs to Ukraine.

Black Sea:

 Nearby Areas : The Hindu Analysis

• The Black Sea is bounded by Ukraine to the north and northwest, Russia and Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west.

Straits : The Hindu Analysis

• The Black Sea is joined by the Bosphorus to the Sea of ​​Marmara and the Aegean Sea by the Dardanelles, which has traditionally been Russia’s warm waters’ gateway to Europe.
• The Black Sea is also connected to the Azov Sea by the Kerch Strait.

Significance for Russia:

 Tactical Intermediate Zone/Buffer : The Hindu Analysis

• The Black Sea is a landmark for the Mediterranean Sea as well as a strategic buffer between NATO countries and Russia.

Geostatistical Significance : The Hindu Analysis

• The dominance of the Black Sea region is a geo-strategic imperative for Moscow, (both to the influence of Russian power in the Mediterranean and to secure an economic gateway to the major markets of Southern Europe).
• Russia has been trying to gain full control of the Black Sea since the Crimean crisis in 2014.
• Control over the Black Sea as well as the land bridge linking Russia and Crimea has been Russia’s main goal in the current conflict.
• Reducing Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea would turn it into a landlocked country and deal a serious blow to its logistics trade.

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