[22] Throughout early November 2022 immediately after the end of the Kherson offensive, there were reports that Ukrainian special operations forces had conducted limited small-boat landings on the Kinburn Spit.

[24] On 16 November, Ukraine's Operational Command South reported that their forces had carried out more than 50 strikes around the spit to disrupt Russian shelling and electronic warfare originating from the area.

[34] Soldiers from the Carlson air intelligence unit raised a Ukrainian flag on a port crane tower and liberated the surrounding territory.

[38] On 7 December 2022, Ukrainian military officer of the Main Directorate of Intelligence Ihor Oliinyk, commander of a reconnaissance unit operating in the Kherson area, was killed in combat on the island.

Ostriv Velykyi Potomkin was partially submerged below the Dnipro river, necessitating the military forces of both sides to withdraw, and thereby temporarily ending fighting on it.

[55] Due to the destruction of the dam, water levels on the lower Dnieper rose about 5.31 meters, fully submerging the swampy islands in the delta, as well as the whole of Hola Prystan and most of Oleshky.

Additionally, the Kinburn Spit has been separated from the mainland due to the flooding, becoming an island on which Ukrainian forces performed an amphibious landing on 8 June.

[60] Over the ten days after 9 June, Russia started moving its Dnieper Group of Forces (DGF) from the eastern bank of the river to reinforce the Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia sectors, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.

[62] Russian soldiers apparently made efforts to repel Ukrainian forces from the eastern bank, suffering heavy casualties on the way, according to Euromaidan Press.

[64][65] On 1 August 2023, the Ukrainians reportedly bombed Russian positions on Dzharylhach Island in the occupied Kherson region near the Black Sea, which they claimed had killed 200 soldiers.

[67] Russian forces target Ukrainian settlements and civilians on the west bank of the Dnieper frequently and on 14 September, killed a 6 year old child in an artillery strike.

[68] After this incident, Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration ordered the evacuation of all families with children from 31 settlements along the Dnipro river.

In the first 3–4 days, the 35th, 36th and 38th marine brigades were supposed to capture a wide 30-kilometer stretch of land from the Antonivka Railway Bridge to Krynky and advance towards the M-14 road.

The 36th was the first brigade to suffer significant losses in the operation, when on 19 October their positions near the railway bridge were hit by Iskander strikes that killed and wounded 90 men.

[76] Russian opposition outlet Meduza said that by early-mid November 2023, Ukraine was in control of "the entire territory of the uninhabited islands upstream almost all the way to the Kakhovka HPP."

However, they said that the populated places near those islands at higher elevation were still under Russian control, listing Oleshky, Kozachi Laheri, Korsunka [uk], and Dnipriany as examples.

[75] On 13 November 2023, Russian news agencies released a statement saying Russia was moving its troops to "more favourable positions" east of the river, only to retract the announcement a few minutes later.

Reuters called it a "highly unusual incident" that "suggested disarray in Russia's military establishment and state media over how to report the battlefield situation in southern Ukraine".

[78] By late December 2023, Ukrainian Marines on the east bank of the Dnipro River were suffering heavy losses, without stable gains, but so were Russian forces.

[57][79] On 24 December, a Russian brigade admitted to using tear gas (a type of chemical weapon) against Ukraine near Krynky, which would be a violation of international law.

Ukrainian member of parliament Roman Kostenko said in an interview in October 2023: “These were comprehensive operations involving bridge construction, damming, personnel and equipment movement.

We understand how complex the situation is.” [82][83] On 21 December, Ukrainian drone commander Robert Brovdi claimed that “in the less than 2.5 months of our stay in the south, we hit more than 450 enemy vehicles on the mentioned strip, 153 of which were burned to ashes”.

[88][89][90][91] On 4 January 2024, The Washington Post reported that, over the course of the offensive on the east bank of the Dnieper Ukraine's armed forces had seized a few square kilometers of land, mainly around Krynky, but had failed to take a single settlement.

[97] On 7 July, Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces claimed to have killed 90 Russian soldiers and destroyed 34 pieces of equipment that day, including four guns, two mortars and 14 armored vehicles.

[98] On 17 July, the number of losses suffered by Ukrainian forces from October 2023 to June 2024 in Krynky was reported to be 262 killed and buried and 788 missing in action.

[100] As noted by historian Nikolay Mitrokhin, the Ukrainian Krynky campaign had "served the purpose of tying up Russian forces and persuading the Moscow army leadership to move valuable equipment to this location, which was then to be destroyed with drones.