UKRAINE, KUPIANSK DIRECTION, March 5 — Russian army is trying to finish “clearing out” Dvorichna and “clears out” Fyholivka, said Ruslan Mykula, co-founder of OSINT project DeepState, to Suspilne, Ukrainian media, on March 4. He added that “a large number of enemy’s military personnel” is concentrated in the area. 

Dvorichna is a settlement on the right bank of the Oskil River, east of Kharkiv and north of Kupiansk. In January, Russia claimed to have occupied Dvorichna, but the Kharkiv Oblast governor refuted this claim. 

DeepState’s war monitoring map marks most of Dvorichna as occupied by Russia and reported “constant pressure” on the Ukrainian forces in the settlement. 

Dvorichna was continuously shelled by Russian forces since Kyiv liberated it in 2022. Local officials say that the level of destruction in the village now is comparable to that of Vovchansk, a city north of Kharkiv that was almost completely destroyed after Russia launched a new ground offensive there in May 2024. 

It is also now confirmed by Ukraine’s law enforcement that Russian troops executed a 59-year-old man in Dvorichna at the beginning of January 2024. 

Fyholivka, a village to the northeast of Dvorichna, is also on the right bank of Oskil and is also threatened by Russia’s advance in the Kupiansk direction. 

Moscow’s troops ramped up their offensive on the Kupiansk axis in September 2024 when they managed to reach the outskirts of Kupiansk and pushed to the Oskil River in several directions across the axis. 

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