“Russian warship, go fuck yourself.” These words, uttered by a Ukrainian serviceman on Snake Island, defined the first day and much of the first phase of Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov tweeted a cynically humorous weather report in February that included “chances of Russian attack 30%, feels like 95%.” YouTube Just before the Russian invasion of his ...

Rude gestures are rare on postage stamps, but Ukraine's best known stamp has one. It shows a soldier raising the middle finger to a Russian warship in reference to a stand-off at Snake Island on day ...