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   Evacuate Mariupol fighters to Snake Island via short stealth flights?   
      
   MOSCOW, May 9. /TASS/. Ukraine’s General Staff with direct participation of   
   advisers from the US and the UK plotted provocation to seize Snake Island, but   
   it was foiled by Russia’s forces, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman   
   Major-General Igor    
   Konashenkov said on Monday.   
      
   "Since May 7 at the direct order of Vladimir Zelensky the Ukrainian General   
   Staff with the direct participation of advisers from the US and the UK had   
   plotted a major provocation on seizing Snake Island <…>. Due to professional   
   steps by a unit of    
   Russia’s Armed Forces on the island the Ukrainian provocation was foiled.   
   The enemy sustained major losses," Konashenkov said.   
      
   According to him, over the past two days the Kiev regime made several   
   desperate attempts of carrying out an airborne and amphibious landing on Snake   
   Island, which is of major importance for ensuring control over the   
   northwestern part of the Black Sea.   
      
   More than 50 Ukrainian saboteurs were destroyed during an attempt to capture   
   Snake Island and the bodies of 24 Ukrainian servicemen remain on the shore,   
   Konashenkov said. "As a result of a foolish provocation [by Ukrainian   
   President Vladimir] Zelensky    
   only during the landing and an attempt to establish a foothold on the island   
   more than 50 Ukrainian saboteurs were destroyed. Twenty-four bodies of the   
   killed Ukrainian servicemen remain on the shore of Snake Island," Konashenkov   
   stressed.   
      
   During the operation to repel attacks on the island, four Ukrainian aircraft   
   were downed in the air, including three Su-24 and one Su-27, three Mi-8   
   helicopters with paratroopers onboard and one Mi-24 helicopter. Also during   
   the airborne landing attempt    
   on May 8 night three Ukrainian Project 58181 Centaur-class armored assault   
   craft with Ukraine’s Navy personnel were destroyed.   
      
   Over the past two days, 29 Ukrainian drones were downed in the air, including   
   eight Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles. Four Bayraktar drones   
   were shot down on Monday afternoon.   
      
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