Russia has used the Kinburn Spit to fire missiles at Ukraine's Black Sea coast and control the Dnipro river mouth. Ukraine is now trying take it back.

Kinburn Spit. Screenshot: DeepState Map. Russian forces are concentrating troops in the area of the Kinburn Spit in Mykolaiv Oblast to reinforce defences and prevent Ukraine's defence forces from ...

A service member of the Terek cossack battalion walks at a combat position near the Kinburn Spit on January 19, 2023. A brief video, shared by Ukraine's forces in the south of the country, purports ...

The vessel had been docked in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, before moving to the Kinburn Spit after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in June 2023, the navy said.

A damaged Russian position, reportedly on the Kinburn Peninsula. It’s official: Ukrainian commandos riding in small boats have infiltrated the Kinburn Spit, a three-mile finger of sand and scrub ...

The Kinburn Spit, located on the Black Sea coast of Mykolaiv Oblast, may temporarily become an island due to the blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP) and the leakage of ...

Ukrainian special forces conducted an amphibious raid on the Russian-occupied Kinburn Spit in the Black Sea's northwest on Friday, destroying six Russian armoured vehicles and about three dozen ...

Raid on the Kinburn Spit. On August 9, the DIU special forces raided the temporarily occupied Kinburn Spit. Six units of enemy armored vehicles and about three dozen invaders were destroyed.

His mission was to free the mouth of the Dnipro from control by the Ottoman Turks. From his command aboard the 24-gun flagship Vladimir, Jones outfoxed the Turkish fleet, expelled the Turks, and set ...

The Kinburn spit, a tiny headland at the mouth of the Dniepro river, has been described as having “enormous strategic importance” in the next phase of the Ukraine war. Ukraine has indicated ...

Russian paratroopers destroy two Ukrainian boats at Kinburn spit The adversary managed to clear a small coastal area from mines by exploding a controlled combat cutter. MOSCOW, August 27.

The Kinburn Spit, currently controlled by Russia, sits at the mouth of the Dnieper River and can control vessels arriving at and departing from the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv.