The Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island — who were all feared dead after their defiant response to threats from a Russian warship — are actually "alive and well," according to the Ukrainian ...

Just 20 miles off the coast of southeastern Brazil lies a place so dangerous it has been permanently closed to the public. Known as Snake Island, or Ilha da Queimada Grande, this remote outpost is ...

Not many people visit Snake Island each year, and there is a very good reason for that. Ilha da Queimada Grande, as it’s known in Portuguese, is a rocky island located off the coast of Brazil. At just ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said last week all 13 Ukrainians were killed in Thursday's attack on the island Despite earlier reports to the contrary, the Ukrainian military now says ...

An invasive brown tree snake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown tree snake was a major contributor to the loss ...

Military sources told The Times UK that the Vasily Bykov was destroyed. It's the same ship that Ukrainian soldiers told to "go fuck yourself," sources told The Times. A Russian warship that attacked ...

Ukraine forces have launched an assault that dealt a “significant” blow to Russian troops on Snake Island — one of the first Ukrainian positions to fall in the opening hours of the invasion, according ...

Snake Island is seen as central to Russia’s blockade of Odesa, a key Ukrainian port for the export of grain and other goods. It affords the hard pressed and shrinking Black Sea fleet an unsinkable if ...

Ukrainian Su-27s bomb Snake Island. Ukraine’s tiny Snake Island lies astride the main shipping lane connecting Odesa, Ukraine’s biggest port, to the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosphorous Strait. That’s ...