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What we know on day 500 of the invasion
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has visited a Black Sea island whose defenders defied a Russian warship at the beginning of the invasion.
Agence France-Presse reports that he said in a video clip:
Today we are on Snake Island, which will never be conquered by the occupiers, like the whole of Ukraine, because we are the country of the brave.
I want to thank, from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for these 500 days.