GENICHESK, October 26. /TASS/. Russia’s battlegroup Dnepr foiled a Ukrainian attempt to land on Alyoshkinsky Island and destroyed a group of Ukrainian troops on the right bank near Kherson, the regional operational services told reporters.

"The enemy's attempt to land near Alyoshkinsky Island was foiled. Two boats and ten Ukrainian fighters were destroyed," the spokesman said.

According to him, twenty Ukrainian servicemen were eliminated in the area of a small railway bridge. In the area of the island, a 120 mm mortar with its crew and ammunition was destroyed. In the Kakhovka area, the Ukrainain temporary deployment site with 11 servicemen was hit. Seven fighters were wounded, and one vehicle was knocked out of action.