Ukraine’s Defense Ministry denies ISW's report on Ukrainian Armed Forces raid on Dnipro left bank 

Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar made the statement on the United News telethon.

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces and the General Staff do not confirm this information as of now. We are asking and appealing to everyone to trust only official sources," said Maliar.

The Deputy Defense Minister also reminded which sources are official - first and foremost, the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense. According to her, any information related to the combat zone may affect the situation at the front. 

"Therefore, everything provided by the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense is information that is safe for our combat operations," emphasized Maliar.

ISW’s report

On the morning of August 9, in their usual report, ISW analysts noted that several Russian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces had landed up to 7 boats, each carrying about 6 to 7 people, on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River near the village of Kozachi Laheri and had broken through the defenses there to a depth of 800 meters.

According to them, a Russian "military blogger" noted that the Russian command had recently redeployed a "trained group" of Russian paratroopers (airborne troops) from the Kozachi Laheri area to the Zaporizhzhia region and replaced them with mobilized fighters from an unidentified unit, thereby weakening Russian defenses in the area.

According to analysts, the occupation head of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, downplayed the information about the Ukrainian landing and said that Russian artillery fire prevented the landing.

However, most prominent Russian military bloggers claimed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to use tactical surprise and landed on the eastern bank before the Russians opened fire. Therefore, Saldo was probably trying to deliberately downplay the Ukrainian Armed Forces' achievements in this region.

NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) maps for the last 24 hours show that there are fire outbreaks near Kozachi Laheri, which indicates active artillery fire.

By the end of the day, Russian "military bloggers" began to claim that the Ukrainian Defense Forces had left the left bank of the Dnipro River. The ISW assesses this as a "limited raid" rather than a full-fledged breakthrough of the defense line.

• On August 7, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said that its special forces destroyed a missile unit of the Russian army during an operation on the temporarily occupied left bank of the Dnipro River, Kherson region.