Russia is fighting for a border village near Kharkiv that leads it nowhere in Donbas

Name: Russia is fighting for a border village near Kharkiv that leads it nowhere in Donbas
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Russian forces have widened their foothold at Hraniv on the border north of Kharkiv, a Ukrainian military spokesman said. Viktor Trehubov of the Joint Forces Grouping said they spread sideways rather than deeper toward the nearby town of Kozacha Lopan.

Russia's main offensive grinds on in Donetsk Oblast, but it keeps pressing along the northern border too. Brigadier General Denys Prokopenko warned in September that Russia wants buffer zones in Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts, a push meant to keep Ukrainian reserves there instead of in the east. Such pushes gain little: in Sumy Oblast, the Russian advance reached about 3–4 km deep, more than 35 km short of the city.

Trehubov described the Hraniv gain as a separate wedge toward Kozacha Lopan, right by the border. "But they managed to widen it," he said on Suspilne Studio on 31 October. He said Russian troops did not deepen the wedge or move further into Kozacha Lopan, and called the widening "a certain problem."

The Ukrainian volunteer monitoring project DeepState marked a Russian advance near Hraniv on 30 October. On its map, the Russian-held area around the village grew from about 2 to 11 square kilometers, according to EP's calculation based on DeepState's data. The gray zone around it, where control is unclear, more than doubled to some 19 square kilometers. The new ground runs southeast of Hraniv along the border, in line with Trehubov's account of a wider, not deeper, wedge.

The wedge dates back to late June, when a spokesman for Ukraine's 14th Army Corps, Colonel Vitalii Sarantsev, said Russian troops had crossed the border near Hraniv and were trying to storm Kozacha Lopan. He said Russia was trying to open new wedges along the Sumy and Kharkiv borders to tie down Ukrainian forces and widen a so-called controlled zone. On 1 July, the 425th Skelia Assault Regiment said it had pushed Russian troops out of Kozacha Lopan, 2 km from the border, and cleared Hraniv. Ukraine's General Staff reported 13 Russian attacks northeast of Kharkiv over the past day, none of them listed near Hraniv.

The northern pushes have been on Ukraine's radar for months. Buffer zones in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv oblasts remain on Russia's list, Pavlo Palisa, deputy head of the Presidential Office, said in April, though he saw no Russian forces to carry them out. Military analyst Yevhen Dykyi described the aim as a zone of constant tension along the border, like the one in parts of Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts, which forces Ukraine to spread its forces more thinly.

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Russian forces have widened their foothold at Hraniv on the border north of Kharkiv, a Ukrainian military spokesman said. Viktor Tryhubov of the joint forces grouping said they spread sideways rather than deeper toward the nearby town of Kozacha Lopan. Russia's main offensive grinds on in Donetsk oblast, but it keeps pressing along the northern border too. Brigadier General Denis Prokopenko warned in September that Russia wants buffer zones in Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts, a push meant to keep Ukrainian reserves there instead of in the east. Such pushes gain little. In Sumy Oblast, the Russian advance reached about 3 to 4 kilometers deep, more than 35 kilometers short of the city. Tryhubov described the front of gain as a separate wedge toward Kozacha Lopan, right by the border. But they managed to widen it, he said on Cismon Studio on October 31. He said Russian troops did not deepen the wedge or move further into Kozacha Lopan, and called the widening a certain problem. The Ukrainian volunteer monitoring project Deep State marked a Russian advance near Hraniv on October 30. On its map, the Russian-held area around the village grew from about 2 to 11 square kilometers, according to EP's calculation based on Deep State's data. The gray zone around it, where control is unclear, more than doubled to some 19 square kilometers. The new ground runs southeast of Hraniv along the border, in line with Tryhubov's account of a wider, not deeper, wedge. The wedge dates back to late June, when a spokesman for Ukraine's 14th Army Corps, Colonel Vitaliy Sarantsev, said Russian troops had crossed the border near Hraniv and were trying to storm Kozacha Lopan. He said Russia was trying to open new wedges along the Sumy and Kharkiv borders to tie down Ukrainian forces and widen a so-called controlled zone. On July 1, the 425th Skelia Assault Regiment said it had pushed Russian troops out of Kozacha Lopan, two kilometers from the border, and cleared Hraniv. Ukraine's General Staff reported 13 Russian attacks northeast of Kharkiv over the past day, none of them listed near Hraniv. The northern pushes have been on Ukraine's radar for months. Buffer zones in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv oblasts remain on Russia's list, Pavlo Palisa, deputy head of the presidential office, said in April, though he saw no Russian forces to carry them out. Military analyst Yevhen Dyky described the aim as a zone of constant tension along the border, like the one in parts of Chernihiv and Sumy Oblasts, which forces Ukraine to spread its forces more thinly.