‘Go f*** yourself’: Snake Island riposte stamped on Russian’s passport

Ukrainian border guards have been accused of stamping a Russian man’s passport with the phrases “Russian warship, go f*** your self”.

Igor Zabotin says he was turned away on the Romania-Ukraine border on 15 August and had his stamp marked with the phrase.

The phrases had been famously stated by Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island on the very begin of Russia’s invasion in February. The boys prompted worldwide consideration by swearing and defiantly refusing a Russian warship’s calls for to give up.

Zabotin shared photos on Fb of his Russian passport, and an undated stamp with Cyrillic phrases on the web page subsequent to his identification particulars.

He says that the stamp was added to his doc by “Ukrainian border forces” when he tried to cross the Porubne/Siret checkpoint within the southern Ukrainian area of Chernivtsi.

“I left the Ukrainian border in any case procedures and earlier than Romanian customs, I ready my papers and opened my passport,” he informed Euronews. 

“No person informed me something on the Ukrainian border. Militaries or customs, I do not know who did [it] precisely.”

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has not responded to Euronews’ requests to touch upon this case. 

In one other publish on Fb, Zabotin says he was initially denied entry to Romania due to a visa difficulty.

“I handed the primary [border post] alive and nicely. The second, [I] was not allowed in, regardless of all official statements that they might let in third-country nationals with Ukrainian residence permits and who had been there throughout the battle.”

He then says that he was made to “spend the night time” between the 2 nations’ borders — harking back to the Tom Hanks movie “The Terminal”.

“The Ukrainian customs officers took my passport and informed me to spend the night time close to the duty-free store at their checkpoint,” he added on Fb. “A Ukrainian border guard got here up and despatched me to a impartial strip.”

Zabotin informed Euronews that he has since crossed into Romania through one other border publish and is “protected” and has “momentary safety”.

Romanian Border Police have informed Euronews that the stamp was not utilized to Zabotin’s passport by their guards.

“In case a international citizen who doesn’t meet the authorized circumstances for entry into the nation … the particular person in query shall not be allowed to enter the nation and shall be given a kind stating the explanations for the measure and the right way to attraction,” a press release learn.

Additionally they confirmed on Twitter that they didn’t apply the Cyrillic stamp, dispelling on-line misinformation.

‘There isn’t a Nazism in Ukraine’

Zabotin now works in web advertising and marketing after beforehand being employed with the impartial Russian media, The Moscow Instances.

He states that he moved to Ukraine from Barnaul, Russia, in 2015 and has been residing there legally for seven years.

Following Russia’s invasion, he has tried to go away the nation however says he turned trapped between Romania and Ukraine. He has additionally shared anti-war posts on social media that contradict Russia’s claims about Ukraine.

“The truth that I drove by way of central and western Ukraine with Russian quantity plates is direct proof that there is no such thing as a Nazism right here and there was no motive to begin this battle,” he wrote on Fb.

“There isn’t a Nazism in Ukraine, by no means was and by no means might be, irrespective of how exhausting the Kremlin propagandists strive,” he added.

The Kremlin had claimed that it launched a “particular army operation” in Ukraine to “demilitarise” and “denazify” the nation.

Russian residents face heavy fines or as much as 15 years in jail in the event that they deliberately share so-called “pretend information” concerning the nation’s army, or its entities overseas.