Ukrainian sailor who hurled iconic insult at Russian ship returns home after being released

Roman Hrybov, the sailor ukrainian from Snake Island who became a hero when he stood up to a russian warshiparrived safely at his home in the Cherkassy region today and received a medal, after a prisoner exchange with Moscow last Thursday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.

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“Roman Hrybov, the author of the famous phrase ‘Russian warship, go to hell’, returned from Russian captivity to his native region of Cherkasy. Glory to the hero!” wrote the Ukrainian defense on Twitter.

Roman Hrybov, the author of the famous “Russian Warship, Go F*** Yourself” phrase, returned from Russian captivity to his native Cherkasy region. Glory to the Hero! #GlorytoUkraine pic.twitter.com/uruPgkBLGv

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) March 29, 2022

In images shared on Tuesday, the Cherkasy Regional State Administration said Governor Igor Taburets presented Hrybov with a medal “for merits in the Cherkasy region.”

#ukraine Roman Hrybov, the Ukrainian soldier, who said the now-famous “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” phrase when asked to surrender, returned home. It was initially thought that Hrybov and all the border guards on Snake Island were killed. Hrybov was captured by Russians pic.twitter.com/RVzfzK3ii4

— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) March 29, 2022

Some 19 sailors – including the 13 from Snake Island – were released last Thursday after a month in captivity, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschukm revealed on Telegram. In exchange, Ukraine released 11 Russian civilian sailors they had rescued from a sunken ship near Odessa. It is not clear when the Russian sailors were seized.

“As a result of this exchange, 19 Ukrainian civilian sailors are returning home from the rescue ship Sapphire, which was seized by the occupiers when they were trying to get our troops out of Snake Island,” Vereschukm said.

Ukrainian sailors were captured early in the invasion while defending Snake Island in the Black Sea. They were initially presumed dead after defiantly refusing to surrender when a Russian warship approached and ordered them to “lay down their arms…to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and death. Otherwise, they will be bombed.” Moments later, the Ukrainians responded: “Russian warship, fuck you.”

Audio of the Ukrainians’ brave exchange quickly went viral.

Days later it emerged that the sailors had survived the attack, but had been taken prisoner after running out of ammunition. Before knowing they were alive, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to decorate the presumed dead border guards with the nation’s highest honor.

Subsequently, it also became known that the Valisy Bykov warship, which fired on the sailors, was destroyed. The ship was hit during a missile exchange on Monday, March 7, possibly by a shell fired by Ukrainian forces on the ground defending the port city of Odessa, which has been preparing for a Russian attack for days, according to The Times. . “The ship was destroyed, it is confirmed,” a Ukrainian military source revealed to the British newspaper.

By: “La Nación”, from Argentina / GDA

Source: Elcomercio

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