On Tuesday, battles took place between the Ukrainian and Russian forces on the outskirts of Kinburn, the area located on the left bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, south of Mykolaiv, while the Crimea peninsula under Russian control in Ukraine was attacked by drones.
"We still have to (take back) three towns on the Kinburn Peninsula" to fully liberate the Mykolaiv region, Kinburn district governor Vitaly Kim said on Tuesday.
The spokeswoman for the Southern Command of the Ukrainian army, Natalia Gomenyuk, referred Monday to "a military operation currently underway on the Kinburn Peninsula."
"We continue to fight. When results are available, we will report them," she said, without providing further details.
The Ukrainian army's recovery of the last three villages in the Mykolaiv region from the Russians will constitute an important victory for Kiev, a few days after it expelled Russian forces from Kherson, the only regional capital that Moscow has managed to control since last February.
Mykolaiv is of particular importance, being close to the strategic city of Odessa on the Black Sea, and being a shipbuilding center.
March attack
The developments in Mykolaiv come while the strategic Crimea peninsula was attacked by drones on Tuesday, according to what the authorities appointed from Moscow announced.
"There is an attack with drones. Our air defense forces are operating at the moment," Mikhail Razvogayev, governor of the Sevastopol administrative region in Crimea, said on Telegram.
He explained that two drones "have been shot down so far."
He confirmed that no civilian infrastructure had been damaged and called on the population to "remain calm".
He said in a later post that the air defense forces shot down two drones near the Balaclava power station.
Crimean authorities said the power plant had been attacked before.
"Now the city is quiet," Razvogayev noted.
But all forces and equipment are ready to fight."
The Russian Black Sea Fleet stationed in the Crimean port of Sevastopol has been attacked by drones before, and this led Moscow to withdraw briefly from the grain export agreement with Ukraine after the attack damaged at least one of its ships.