Kamianka, Dvorichna settlement hromada, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast

Kamianka
Кам'янка
Kamianka is located in Ukraine
Kamianka
Kamianka
Location of Kamianka within Ukraine
Kamianka is located in Kharkiv Oblast
Kamianka
Kamianka
Kamianka (Kharkiv Oblast)
Coordinates: 49°58′47″N 37°50′28″E / 49.979722°N 37.841111°E / 49.979722; 37.841111
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
RaionKupiansk Raion
HromadaDvorichna settlement hromada
Established1675
Area
 • Total
2.962 km2 (1.144 sq mi)
Elevation
90 m (300 ft)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • Total
10
 • Density3.4/km2 (8.7/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
62710
Area code+380 5750
KATOTTHUA63080050160094886

Kamianka (Ukrainian: Кам'янка; Russian: Каменка) is a village in the Kupiansk Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine, at about 108.93 kilometres (67.69 mi) east by north (EbN) of the centre of Kharkiv city. It belongs to Dvorichna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

Geography

The village is located on the right bank of the Oskil River.

History

The settlement was established in 1675.[2]

Russo-Ukrainian War

The village was occupied by Russian troops on 24 February 2022. By the end of October, the same year, the village was recaptured by Ukrainian forces.[3]

On 28 April 2025, Russia claimed to have recaptured the village,[4] Ukraine denied the claims.[5]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the settlement had 968 inhabitants, whose native languages were 89.18% Ukrainian, 10.20% Russian, 0.31% Belarusian and 0.10% Armenian, Moldovan (Romanian) and German.[6]

References

  1. ^ Out of approximately a thousand people, no more than 10 remained in the village, the others either left or died.
  2. ^ Материалы для истории колонизации и быта Харьковской и отчасти Курской и Воронежской губ. / [Д. И. Багалей]. – Харьков: Тип. К. П. Счасни, 1890. - с. 148, 170
  3. ^ ЗСУ звільнили ще чотири населені пункти в Харківській області
  4. ^ Angelica Evans; Nicole Wolkov; Daria Novikov; Anna Harvey; Christina Harward; Frederick W. Kagan (28 April 2025). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 28, 2025". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 29 April 2025. Assessed Russian advances: Geolocated footage published on April 28 indicates that Russian forces recently seized southern Kamyanka (northeast of Kupyansk near the international border) and advanced on the settlement's eastern outskirts
  5. ^ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment" (PDF). understandingwar.org. ISW. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 30 April 2025. Ukrainian Khortytsia Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Viktor Trehubov rejected on April 29 the Russian MoD's April 28 claim that Russian forces seized Kamyanka.[45] Trehubov stated that Ukrainian fortifications and outposts remain in the village and that fighting continues in the area.
  6. ^ "All-Ukrainian population census". db.ukrcensus.gov.ua. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 29 April 2025.