Flag of Ukraine. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 4 In Kyiv, it was recognized that the Ukrainian flag was not installed on Zmeiny Island, it was only dropped from a helicopter, said Natalya, head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the operational command «South» of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Gumenyuk.
"The flag was delivered to the island by helicopter. It will wait until the troops arrive, and then it will flutter,” she told CNN.
Gumenyuk called for taking her early statements “metaphorically.” “No one landed on the island. Who will install it, raise it?” she added. On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that as a gesture of goodwill, troops were withdrawn from Snake Island. The department noted that in this way it is demonstrated that Moscow does not interfere with the efforts of the UN to organize a humanitarian corridor for the export of agricultural products from the territory of Ukraine. Serpentine remains under Russian control, State Duma says