The reported raid on the occupied east bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region is “not confirmed” by the military’s General Staff at this stage, Ukrainian officials have said, APA reports citing CNN.
“The original source of this information was the Russians. And then this information was spread. These are the laws of social media development, nothing can be stopped. But as of now, the General Staff has not confirmed it," Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Maliar said in comments on national television on Wednesday.
"As soon as the General Staff confirms it, we will definitely discuss it if there is any news,” she added.
The raid which allegedly took place on Tuesday was reported by Russian state media and military bloggers.
Several Russian military bloggers said Ukrainian forces had managed to land seven boats on the occupied east bank of the Dnipro, near the town of Kozachi Laheri.
Analysts believe Ukrainian action in Kherson is designed to keep Russian troops in the area and prevent their re-deployment to the front in Zaporizhzhia, a vitally important southern region.
Reclaiming Zaporizhzhia is the key to Kyiv's military cutting off occupied southern Ukraine from the Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula, which it has controlled since 2014. That would effectively sever the land route between territory newly claimed in Russia's invasion and territory it claimed nearly a decade ago.
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