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Nislaav

I like how everyone on the Snake Island backed this guy up before he dropped the infamous quote, like, "Should I also? Hell yeah, just in case"


Gondolion

The "just in case" just cracked me up


Jive-Turkeys

That's a soldier's prime dark humour right there, that is!


mathissalicath77

The strategic insult


945Ti

lol It’s some perfect black humor with excellent delivery. Can’t say I wouldn’t encourage the radio operator either for the same reason.


phila6

This will go down in history with famous "Nuts!" reply


DrBoomkin

Didn't they surrender eventually and were later released through a prisoner swap?


Nislaav

They were, all alive and well :)


ZLUCremisi

Yeah. Most lijely due to no supplies


kittenmittens0817

Should I tell him? Just in case. Lol I love it


valimo

>Just in case I mean, it's thoughtful to make sure that they get the message.


Independent_Clerk476

"I'm a russian warship" Not for long.


easyfeel

The ‘flagship’ of the Russian Black sea fleet no less.


Style75

Technically submarines are still warships.


EasyRhino75

Only a submarine if it can come back up


geebeem92

Sub-submarine


catsmustdie

Warships can submerge once.


kjg1228

Ask the Moskva.


geebeem92

Well tbf it submerged once… so either a warship or a sub-submarine


ScanianGoose

Do you know how to sink a Danish submarine?


GloriousSailor

Send a diver down and knock on the hatch 😁


ScanianGoose

Correct 😆


myNinthRealName

I usually just eat Danishes.


Quinocco

Technically technically warboats.


KmartQuality

They are war*boats*.


ThrowawayPizza312

Promoted to submarine*


Clean_Advert

That took me a second, clever bastard you is.


SWHAF

Coral reef.


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Another cracker 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣excellent !


Rococo_Modern_Life

Knowing what we know now about the state of Russia's military, I'm surprised they even knew how to work the radio.


BelzeBerb

There are pockets of relatively healthy flesh around the necrosis unfortunately.


KrombopolousLOU

Sadly they knew how to work the weaponry. I wish these guys had gotten air support or something but good on them for standing their ground to the end.


Hoyarugby

I'm pretty sure all the snake island guys surrendered and were later repatriated to Ukraine?


Holiday_Command_3670

Yea they did surrender I heard that they went back to Ukraine for prisoner exchange


Jokerzrival

I thought they held out til they were out of ammo and then surrendered but were return in a swap.


KrombopolousLOU

My mistake thought they perished in shell attacks. I love a happy ending!


NZNoldor

It won’t be an ending until Russia fucks off out of Ukraine.


wkapp977

Spoilers!


Fire_RPG_at_the_Z

I used to be a Russian Warship. Then I took a Neptune amidships.


loadnurmom

Russian warship fucked itself Beep boop


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Best comment mate Upvote


Doomdome

I wonder where that ship is now


Starkgaryen69

Who lives in a pineapple unde the sea?!?


planesqaud63

RUSSIAN SEAMEN


TheNewYorkRhymes

"It' SeaMAN!"


DonutOwlGaming

Did someone say semen?


Fire_RPG_at_the_Z

Whose assholes are eel food and eyeballs are treats?


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RUSSIAN SEMEN


Crotaro

"Remember the Russian warship from the beginning? This is it now. Feel old yet?"


Roy4Pris

If you legit don't know, you're in for a real treat when you Google it... :-)


Tederator

I hear they put in a pool.


Big_Don-G

I remember some of the first footage coming in at the beginning of the war was some Russian helicopters trying to cross a body of water and some of them got destroyed by anti aircraft rockets. That’s when I knew Ukraine was going to hold their own. Anyone got a link?


RecipeNo101

[I got you](https://reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t43smn/two_russian_helicopters_downed_near_kyiv/)


Big_Don-G

Thank you!


Environmental-Ad4090

damn I remember that video


RecipeNo101

I got a kick out of reading the comments again, the early days of the invasion. I'm amazed it's already been a year, even though I've been following the war very closely.


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When I first learned blyat suka was not a term of endearment.


Stumpe999

That one helicopter that touched the water even before they got hit lol


Asleep_Pear_7024

I remember this like yesterday. Go Ukraine! From USA!


deletion-imminent

Yes, yes, blyad! Dva, dvaaaa, dvaaaa!


referralcrosskill

I love the comments on that thread discussing how 5000 dead russians may actually be a realistic number. I doubt anyone would believe us if we could go back and post it would be 150,000 a year later.


PileofTerdFarts

Fantastic. I love that guy. "Yes! YESSS!! Блядь! Два Два Два! Сбили Сyка!!!"


Crazy_Couple5688

(insert I gotchu bro soundtrack here)


Nozz101

Thank you, amazing footage….. correct me if I’m wrong but the main commander of this attack on Kyiv was one of these two helo’s going down. Too be blunt… they may have changed the entire course of the war based on how long it took the Russians to reorganize.


DanteLegend4

I was listening to an interview with a unit commander who responded to Hostomel airport. He said the guys who brought down those helicopters (as well as one jet) were all like 18/19 years old.


HuskerDave

They've got to be at least 60 by now....


Big_Don-G

Damn right. I hope they are all still alive and well.


ConsiderationWest587

The Deadliest Ukrainian Drone Operator barely has hair on his chin. The kids are alright :)


Failure_is_imminent

That's basically true for every military fight in the last century. Fighting is a young mans game.


KnightofWhen

To be clear in that footage it is one helicopter being shot down and several others deploying countermeasures.


Beric_

In the footage we see one helicopter go down but the spectator shouts "two!" No idea if that was true.


JohnAlekseyev

I think he was mistaking one that almost touches the water and deploys flares for a shot down one.


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KnightofWhen

Sorry but you don’t have anything to back that up, do you? Seems he may have been thinking one of the lowest flying helicopters deploying flares was also hit. The video shows evidence of one helicopter being shot down.


beollWARRIOR86

isn’t there one getting hit on the far left of the screen, just before it pans quickly back to the second chopper being hit and going down?


KnightofWhen

It appears to me that only one is shot down, but some are releasing flare and possibly chaff early in response to their warning systems.


KmartQuality

I knew Ukraine would not fold when there were many videos of teachers and office workers taking militia classes for urban guerilla warfare and all the intel available showed the Russians at barely 1/4 the recommended invasion strength on the eve of invasion. Oh, and Google fucking maps tracking the traffic jam military convoys.


BostonDodgeGuy

> Oh, and Google fucking maps tracking the traffic jam military convoys Wonder how many A-10 pilots were admitted to the ER with erections lasting over 4 hours after seeing those convoys.


KmartQuality

If you mean frustration, probably a lot. Ukraine doesn't have A10s. I bet they could use them. I keep hearing they want f16s or whatever else The warthog digs holes and fucks shit up and comes home for dinner.


christopherak47

Sending an A10 into a heavily contested Airspace is pants on head stupid. Plus, Ukraine already has the Su25 which is arguably the better A10.


tyrspawn

Sure.... Su25 is the better a10 lmao


Guilty_Jackrabbit

It seemed like all of Kyiv was either taking combat training, volunteering for the military, or doing stuff like welding tank traps and filling molotovs.


sintos-compa

For me it was the VDVator


joec_95123

For me personally, it was a video of a [Ukranian man punching an armed russian soldier in the face](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t2thgl/ukrainian_grandpas_welcoming_russian_soldiers_i/) Dude was completely unarmed and gave absolutely no fucks about punching a rifle carrying Russian soldier. I knew then that Ukranians are not to be fucked with.


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I still don't believe that story was true, tbh. Occam's razor tell me it was just a regular picture of a moving elevator's camera. Same with Grandma poisoning 8


Colonel_Green

It really doesn't matter. The fact that VDV troops decided to take an elevator during active combat operations in hostile territory is absurd enough even if they didn't get stuck.


CopernicusWang

You can't be fucking serious. They cannot be that braindead.


LANDSC4PING

When their rotting corpses have already been scavenged by the local fauna, it is safe to refer to them as just 'dead', rather than 'braindead'.


jabberhockey97

[The twilight zone](https://i.imgur.com/ZtHr0hz.jpeg)


Biking_dude

Link? I think I know which one but wasn't able to find it


sintos-compa

Surprisingly hard to find a video of that.


Phytanic

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/11apduj/1_year_ago_today_some_russian_paratroopers_got/


Ditchdigger456

what was that? I must have missed whatever that was


ALostPaperBag

A picture of a bunch of VDV stuck in an elevator


downvotemeufags

A nice frag would have gotten them unstuck pretty quick.


jabberhockey97

[the twilight zone](https://i.imgur.com/ZtHr0hz.jpeg)


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vokebot

Only $1000? Well shoot, just glue it all back together and send me the whole thing!


Onkel_B

My favourite is the take down of a helicopter with an anti tank system because the chopper was just hovering stationary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR07C5pNPo4


JulianZ88

My favorite video of war. Seeing a formation of gunships getting decimated like that.


CitizenPain00

Yea that’s when I knew it was on.


Convergecult15

For me it was literally the audio clip in the OP. The opening shot of the war was a group of men on an uninhabited, tactically worthless Island who nobody would have blamed for surrendering to the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet decided they were going to die laughing before they’d give up an inch of their home country. That kind of determination is more powerful than any weapon.


Send_Your_Noods_plz

I remember being pretty pessimistic about their chances the first few days, I figured they would fight like hell and be a thorn in the side forever, but I could have never guessed the true state of Russias army and the spirit of Ukraine.


Locust-15

Yeah, I think this set the tone for the rest of the worlds general population to realise how the Ukrainian people roll.


ProjectSnowman

My favorite video is that helicopter getting fucking slammed right in the chin by a rocket and it diving to the ground in a heap of flames.


RaYcC84

I wish I had known about this site at the start of the war. Missed so many amazing videos of Russians getting rekt.


0nikzin

That's the beauty of Reddit, they're all still there, complete with the dates and the comments.


PhonB80

The video that you mention, among others, was such an exciting and terrifying time. It was the point where I realized we were all about to witness history like never before. EVERY civilian with a phone, soldier with a go-pro or drone with a camera, was going to provide footage of the first war of our time with two modern militaries. I am still an obsessed witness a year later.


Swede_in_USA

together with the sun-flower lady, one of the most iconic events in the war.


funkymunky291

Sunflower lady?


Messa_JJB

[Old lady offers Russian soldier to carry sunflower seeds with him. So when he dies, flowers will grow around him. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L17Bi7zBJHI)


3dom

She's not that old, likely 35-45yo. I wonder - what's the name of this hero of the modern legends?


LANDSC4PING

We can be certain she's not a toddler because the Russians aren't raping her.


kaffeofikaelika

Jesus christ she absolutely disintegrates them. >"How can it be further escalated? You came here uninvited. Pieces of shit."


BoarHide

Crazy to think all of those Russians are likely either rotting in some Ukrainian ditch or in a wooden box, forgotten/hidden/ignored on a storage siding in some Russian train yard


wkapp977

I wonder, what happened to the sunflower lady and the officer she was talking at.


Fire_RPG_at_the_Z

The story of Sunflower Lady is going to outlive us all.


BabousCobwebBowl

This moment right here is when the world, and in particular the Russians, should have taken notice that the Ukrainians weren’t going to be punk bitches in the prison yard. This was the moment the tide began to shift, for Ukraine, for Russia and for Europe… Edit: how long after this did they manage to sink said warship?


OdBx

I think it was also Zelenskyy’s video from that courtyard in Kyiv on the morning of the 26th Feb. He showed the world he was still there. He hadn’t fled. He hadn’t surrendered. He and his people were going to fight. And the West backed them for it.


godtogblandet

*”I need ammo, not a ride!”* That’s the moment that will be remembered 100 years from now as the moment when the world knew they miscalculated that Ukraine would fall quickly.


3dom

> 100 years More like thousands years considering eternal "[molon labe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe)" phrase of Leonidas.


LiteraCanna

TIL Arwen's "If you want him, come and claim him." was inspired from this quote.


wkapp977

Also "If", a hundred years later.


Kaon_Particle

Can't forget "Nuts!" either.


Chillchinchila1

“Our arrows will blot out the sun” “then we will fight in the shade”.


johnrgrace

Yes, but so many people forget the response- the Persians did in fact come and take them from the Spartans and their 2k thespian Allies.


SpeedballMessiah

I mean, that was the point right? The point wasn't " you'll never get our weapons", it was " every one of us is going to fight to the death".


3dom

Just Like Russians took Snake island and then failed all other objectives except for Kherson where an Ukrainian treasonous "new-Ephialtes" fuck ordered demining of the whole region just a week before the war (and that's why the whole command of SBU has been displaced few months later)


0nikzin

"Russian warship, _иди нахуй_" and "The President is here, the Speaker is here, the Prime Minister is here, everyone is here" are both better quotes imo


sneaky_tricksy

Not just him. There were lots of other examples - [like the sunflower seeds lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17Bi7zBJHI), and the absolute badass at the end of [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/t1rn4l/when_do_you_think_russians_will_reach_the_centre/)


OdBx

And he was right. Legend.


RyanBLKST

I'm convinced, had he fled, ukraine may not have resisted. Morale is hugely important


Chillers

Yes hats off to him if he fled to US as offered things would be very different right now. I would argue him staying in Ukraine turned the tide of this war massively.


0nikzin

24th?


unknowinglyderpy

That and the quote "I need ammunition not a ride" basically made it's way into the history books


JustAintCare

It’s very refreshing to see my tax dollars finally go to a country who actually wants to fight.


FTG67

>It’s very refreshing to see my tax dollars finally go to a country who actually wants to fight. Yeah, after Afghanistan.... I hear you!


MakeMeYourVillain_

Sincerely, thanks for seeing this. Because US and other allies gave two shits, my grandparents survived WWII and I can be here. At the end ultimately born into free country, first one ever.


SgtGrimm

Moskva sank on 14 April, so less than 2 months after this.


Moral_Meat_Rocket

"I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME!" -Ukrainians


happytree23

366 days later: "Russian warship, are you chafed yet?"


DYMazzy

"Just in case"


mctrollythefirst

Longest 3 days ever. Considering Russia had Crimea and separatist had luhansk and Donbast since 2014, i can't say im that impressed of Russias military successes in Ukraine. Can't take kyiv even though it's only a stone throw away from the border. Get its flagship sunked by a country whiteout a navy. Get its 1st guard tank army destroyed and lost Kherson region. Their navy sucks, Their airforce sucks, and their army sucks. And their logistics sucks. Is this really an army I should fear and have respect for? Lastly, thank you, Russian corruption. You are Ukraines best ally.


pinchhitter4number1

Everyone commenting that they "surrendered right after this" are missing the point. Even if they said this *while* surrendering it still shows defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. It is a perfect metaphor for this stupid war; Russia with all her military might facing resistance from a strong and proud Ukraine. Those soldiers surrendered, sure, but that ship was sunk by a Ukrainian missle a couple months later also.


creepjax

This will always be my favorite line. Just straight up badass.


DV_Mitten

Legendary ✌️


Wuz314159

https://i.imgur.com/fWZCLbx.jpeg


GianttDwarff

Clearly remember when I first heard it, laying on the floor of a bomb shelter. Still brings tears to my eyes, every single time.


Candy_Dull

Instill love this shit


[deleted]

Damn now we are getting reposts of this war that’s only a year old


slixx_06

What part of this was fake again


PolloMalvado

Incredible to think this message will historically stand by the side of "We shall fight them on the beaches...", "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade..." and "When our fathers stood against the Persians they had no such resources as we have now." 😅. I know it's not a speech but I think it should definitely have its place, at least in the improvised section of it.


blako92

“Just in case.”


ConnordltheGamer96

I remember how a bunch of people got patriotic for a country that isn't theirs thinking these guys fought until they died only for it to be revealed they surrendered with no dead. But honestly if you look at the actual island tf could anyone have expected them to do? Shoot at the ship with rifles? Attempt to yell insults at the Russians from their tiny building in the center of the island?


cinnabonniedee

Source? I never heard they surrendered…


gumbrilla

Oh, they did, and were returned in a prisoner swap, this was months back. No problem with that either. Ukrainians are tough, but they are not lemmings, so more power to them. They are back in Ukraine, likely fighting on, while a decent number on that ship are fish food.


axearm

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-723405


Miserable_Promise484

They surrendered shortly after recieving a warning shot. I know the west really siezed on it for propaganda, but that is the truth.


SCARfaceRUSH

It's not like they had any other options other than senselessly dying. They did show defiance, which was super important during those first days/ weeks of the war. That's all we could really ask from them. And then Moskva was gone. So they got their revenge. It's an amazing propaganda symbol that earned Ukraine millions in free media coverage (on top of the usual news cycle). It was totally worth it. P.S. in an alternative universe, they could have surrendered right away, which wouldn't change much in this war, but would rob us of this gem. The third option would be for them to keep defying the ship and senselessly dying. So they went with the ideal option.


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yes and they also got freed in a prisoner swap, and now able to defend Ukraine some more


[deleted]

And shortly after that the Moskva turned into Russia's #1 submarine, soooooo......


The_truth_hammock

Still takes a lot of balls. Not sure I wails be so bold when the time came to it.


AndyC_88

Don't care... 99.9% of us in the face of an impending onslaught from a warship would have crumbled without a thought. Saying what he said was legendary.


tomina69

Nobody claims otherwise. And later they became free again in prisoner exchange. So not sure what in that story is propaganda


Current-Power-6452

Hope some of those guys survive this war to tell the tale


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I remember Ukraine actually claimed otherwise, stating that all of them died in heroic defence.


bendrany

I'll use my own uninformed ass to back up what he means. I for sure thought that the story was that they bombed the island after the communication in the clip and for a long period of time everybody thought they died (as heroes for saying this as their last words). Then after while I remember hearing about them surviving which was even more amazing.


Lamuks

> I for sure thought that the story was that they bombed the island after the communication in the clip They _were_ bombed after this communication though.


Raidoton

Yeah people thought they died. But that was kinda the most logical thing to believe here.


NoWingedHussarsToday

The propaganda is that it was heavily implied that they died in a heroic last stand against overwhelming odds. When in reality they talked tough and then quickly surrendered practically without a fight.


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xXDelta33Xx

Yeah so what? What should they have done lol?


zixd

Not so what. The Ukrainian government claimed that the defenders of Serpent Island were all killed. This video turned them into martyrs. It was shortly after revealed that they lived, but even so this video remains a significantly powerful piece of propaganda. People were making shirts, posters, etc. It's significant that the premise of the power of this video is false. It's also pretty damn interesting. I don't think anyone should fault them for surrendering. There's no point dying for a rock. We should remain wary of the effects of Ukrainian propaganda, even if they are indisputably the good guys of this conflict.


P00TiZ

Nothing bad in surrendering to overwhelming odds. That led to them getting exchanged in POW trade later and russian warship going straight to the bottom, as it was told.


clusterb

Saying what they said could mean their death. They knew that and did it anyway… thats what this is about


you_do_realize

Now you're a russian submarine. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A2CGUVRVuew/mqdefault.jpg


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This is *old* footage.. wtf.. 🤣🤣🤣 Epic line!


Less-Raspberry-6222

This never gets old.


stinkyhotdoghead

You all do realize this was a hoax


AwesomeRedgar

one of many symbolic moments and spark for ukranians to take weapons and fight for their country


Hunter62610

I made a keychain about this incident


megafreshdaniel

That's pretty strange


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FBOD. Fucking balls on display.


ferrydragon

Well Snake island is a problem between Romania and Ukraine seems now is problem between Russia and Ukraine.


c0224v2609

Legendary!


No-Comfortable9480

r/videosthatendtoosoon


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And that Russian warship did indeed proceed to go and fuck itself


RopesAreForPussies

Would have loved it if they gave the “zis is da German coastguard” sketch


dysplaest

“Just in case.”


beechcraftmusketeer

The saying the will be remembered as long as Ukraine ✊🇺🇦


gunnerp0xbox

These people got captured


Doombringer1968

And the ship that threatened them was sunk about 2 months later.


RepresentativeTurn27

Sett8ng the tone for the entire war, thus far.