Date of publication: Mar 29, 2022 • 4 hours ago • 1 minute reading • 44 comments Roman Gribov, known for saying “Go f — yourself” to a Russian warship, received an award on Tuesday after returning to Ukraine in an exchange of prisoners with Russia. Photo by @ nexta_tv / Twitter
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A Ukrainian soldier who said “Go alone!” on a Russian warship that invaded a Black Sea island he was protecting, has now returned home and received a medal on Tuesday.
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Roman Gribov was awarded the “For Merit to Cherkasy”, according to The Odessa Journal. Cherkasy is a central region in Ukraine along the Dnieper River. The author of the most famous Ukrainian fighting cry “Russian warship, go with … yourself”, soldier Roman Gribov, is awarded a medal for demonstrating the “strength of the Ukrainian, Cossack spirit”. Arrested and then exchanged by Russian invaders in a prisoner exchange pic.twitter.com/92H4T0Ra2S – Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) March 29, 2022
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In late February, at the start of the war, Zmiiny Island, also known as Snake Island, received communications from a Russian warship telling Ukrainian guards to surrender “to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary deaths,” the Washington Post reported. Gribov replied: “Russian warship, go alone!” It was believed at the time that 13 of them had been killed in the Snake Island attack. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called them “Heroes of Ukraine”. Russian state media later reported that they had been taken prisoner. Gribov recently returned to Ukraine in an exchange of prisoners announced on March 24. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk told the Telegram that it was “the first full exchange of prisoners of war.”
