“The order for the incredibly stupid attack on Zmeiny Island was personally given by Zelensky and demanded to achieve a “media” result by May 9,” the source said.
According to the source, according to confirmed information, the Ukrainian General Staff, including its head Valery Zaluzhny, were against this "suicidal operation."
According to the source, the finale of the Ukrainian operation was to be a joint statement on the so-called "overcome" of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Zelensky.
“But, in the end, only Johnson spoke yesterday, without mentioning a word about the catastrophe of the operation to storm the Serpentine,” the source said.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that Kyiv, during a thoughtless PR campaign to seize Snake Island, lost more than 50 Ukrainian militants and military personnel of the elite units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four aircraft, ten helicopters, three boats and 30 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Konashenkov stressed that, from a military point of view, the gamble to seize the Serpent's Island, which was pointless, ended in disaster for Ukraine.