'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 words "Russian warship, go f*** yourself".

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

The words were famously said by Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island at the very start of Russia's invasion in February. The men prompted international attention by swearing and defiantly refusing a Russian warship's demands to surrender.

Zabotin shared images on Facebook of his Russian passport, and an undated stamp with Cyrillic words on the page next to his identity details.

He says that the stamp was added to his document by "Ukrainian border forces" when he tried to cross the Porubne/Siret checkpoint in the southern Ukrainian region of Chernivtsi.

"I left the Ukrainian border after all procedures and before Romanian customs, I prepared my papers and opened my passport," he told Euronews. 

"Nobody told me anything on the Ukrainian border. Militaries or customs, I don't know who did [it] exactly."

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has not responded to Euronews' requests to comment on this case. 

Вернули меня обратно, в Румынию не пустили. Пограничники печать вот поставили. Еду снова в Киев, даже не знаю...

In another post on Facebook, Zabotin says he was initially denied entry to Romania because of a visa issue.

"I passed the first [border post] alive and well. The second one, [I] was not allowed in, despite all official statements that they would let in third-country nationals with Ukrainian residence permits and who were there during the war."

He then says that he was made to "spend the night" between the two countries' borders -- reminiscent of the Tom Hanks film