Through the first half of September 2023, heavy fighting has continued around the islands in the lower Dnipro in Kherson region, which currently marks the front line.

According to a report by the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland published on X on Tuesday morning, both sides launched raids with groups in small boats on the islands and opposite river banks.

"The number of forces involved are relatively small compared to other fronts; however, both sides see the area as strategically important. It also provides the opportunity to draw their adversary’s units away from the intense combat in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk oblasts," the intelligence said.

According to British intelligence, Russian operations in the area intensified after the sector came under the responsibility of the newly created 40th Army Corps.