Bile (Ukrainian: Біле, romanized: Bile) is the only village on Snake Island,[1] in the Vylkove hromada, part of the Izmail Raion in the Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine.[2]

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Bile Біле
Bile in 2014
Bile Location in Ukraine Show map of Odesa Oblast Bile Bile (Ukraine) Show map of Ukraine
Coordinates: 45°15′18″N 30°12′15″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odesa Oblast
Raion	Izmail Raion
Hromada	Vylkove
Village founded	2007
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	68315

History

Bile was founded in 2007 on Snake Island to serve Ukraine in a then ongoing dispute with Romania regarding the territorial waters surrounding the island.[1] This was criticized by Romania, which tried to prove that the village in Snake Island could not constitute a permanent settlement.[3] The dispute ended in 2009 following mediation by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which ruled that Romania would get 80% of the disputed maritime area. This was accepted by both sides.[4]

The village of Bile only consists of a few houses of the Ukrainian soldiers stationed there, as well as a monument to 25 Russian sailors who died in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War and a sign dedicated to Saint George, a Roman soldier and Christian saint.[1]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February, 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Snake Island was attacked and virtually all the infrastructure on the village was destroyed.[1] Furthermore, the thirteen Ukrainian border guards defending the island were captured as prisoners of war by the Russian forces.[5] Later on 30 June, 2022, Russian forces withdrew from Snake Island following a heavy Ukrainian bombardment campaign.[6]

References

External links

• Media related to Bile, Odesa Oblast at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

[de] Bile (Ismajil)

[ru] Белое (Одесская область)