Air-Sea run for Snake Island

For Operations Command "South" SHU 1 of the key events in the April-May period was the Air-Sea run for control of strategically located, though small, Snake Island. The operation was staged, with crucial forces being active in the mentioned "Belfry" - air, sea, peculiar and artillery. tiny Serpent Island, or Ostriw Zmijiny (only 0.205 km2), has strategical importance - located in the Danube Delta, while setting up anti-aircraft or anti-ship systems there, allows to control the coast of Romania and sea transfer to Odessa.