It’s not an easy thing to be able to find moments of levity in war, particularly one as lopsided as Russia’s aggressive war on Ukraine. But one moment that fits the bill was when a Ukrainian soldier stationed on an island in the Black Sea responded to Russian demands of surrender with the now iconic phrase: “Russian warship, go fuck yourself.”

Case file: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-11/cp240192en.pdf