Ukrainian troops work to advance on Russian-held side of key river

The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said its troops there had repelled 12 attacks by the Russian army between Friday and Saturday.

Ukrainian soldiers navigate on the Dnipro river (Felipe Dana/AP)

Ukrainian troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper River, the military said, a day after Kyiv claimed to have secured multiple bridgeheads on that side of the river that divides the country’s partially occupied Kherson region.

Ukraine’s establishment of footholds on the Russian-held bank of the Dnieper represents a small but potentially significant strategic advance in the midst of a war largely at a standstill.