UKRAINE, KUPINASK DISTRICT, Nov. 3 — Geolocated footage published on Oct. 31 shows that Russian forces advanced in central Kupiansk, a city east of Kharkiv oblast,  reported the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). 

Russia intensified its offensive on Kupiansk this summer. Russia aims to surround and occupy Kupiansk and seize Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, a city to the south of Kupiansk, an important logistics, railway hub for the region. 

Currently, Ukraine’s army is trying to push Russian troops out of Kupiansk. The Office of Communications for Joint Forces grouping says Russians took areas in the north of the city, occupying 20% of it. 

In the first two days of November, ISW analysts say, Russian troops attacked  Ukrainian positions near Kupiansk itself, near Kamianka, northeast of Kupiansk and toward Kolodiazne; east of Kupiansk near Petropavlivka, and southeast of Kupiansk near Stepova Novoselivka, Pishchane, and Kurylivka. 

They also added that Ukrainian forces are holding their positions or even have advanced on Borova axis, southeast of Kharkiv oblast. 

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