Kharkiv in a sentence

A view shows the Kharkiv Palace Hotel heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine December 31, 2023.

Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehubov said that a cafe and a shop had been attacked in the village of Hroza in the Kupyansk district of Kharkiv at a time the area was filled with civilians.

General Budanov said he expected the attacks in the Kharkiv region to last another three or four days, after which Russian forces are expected to make a hard push in the direction of Sumy, a city about 90 miles to the northwest of Kharkiv.

A man who asked to be identified by his call sign, Summer, checks bodies in a refrigerated train used to store the remains of Russian soldiers in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in May.

A residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike, where rescuers recovered the body of a 10-year-old boy debris, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 6, 2023.

But she also didn’t imagine that Russian soldiers would systematically torture, rape, pillage, and kill civilians, as they did in Bucha, Borodyanka, and the town of Izyum, some seventy miles from Kharkiv.

But soon after Russian forces pulled back from Kyiv, Ukraine launched a lightning double-pronged counterattack in the north and south of the country, and Kharkiv was later liberated from Putin's occupying forces.

Elsewhere in the Kharkiv region, three people were wounded in Russian shelling on the city of Kupiansk, Syniehubov said.

Footage posed by public broadcaster Suspilne on the Telegram messaging app showed rescue workers sifting through large piles of rubble, burning debris and a large crater in Shevchenkove, about 80 km (50 miles) southeast of the city of Kharkiv.

Grueling artillery battles have stepped up in recent weeks in the vicinity of Kupiansk, a strategic town on the eastern edge of Kharkiv province by the banks of the Oskil River.

He said: “We expect them to conduct offensives in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, as well as possibly Zaporizhzhia but to defend in Kherson and Crimea, this is the number of men they will need for such a task.

Hroza and other parts of the eastern Kharkiv region were seized by Russia early in the war and recaptured by Ukraine in September 2022.

In a statement, it said that intense fighting was concentrated near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, Avdiivka in the Dontesk region, and on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

Infrastructure facilities were also hit in the western Lviv region and northeastern Kharkiv.

In Kharkiv, civilian infrastructure was hit in a drone attack, said the city's mayor Ihor Terekhov.

In Kharkiv, in the northeast, at east 10 explosions were reported overnight, said Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the regional administration.

In Kupyansk, the body of the second deceased woman was discovered under the rubble of the museum, said Oleg Sinegubov, the head of Kharkiv OVA.

In the Kharkiv region, the governor said the energy situation was difficult.

Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said two men died today in shelling in Kupiansk, a city that Russia held before Ukrainian forces regained control of almost all of the province.

Kharkiv is so close to the border with Russia that air-raid alarms often have no time to sound before missiles hit.