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☆ Kharkiv: Life goes on as Russian advance menaces city
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Andrew Carey | Daria Tarasova-Markina | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Kharkiv, Ukraine CNN —Thirty miles to the north, Russian forces are invading again. 00:41 - Source: CNNHotel manager Olha SokolenkoOlha Sokolenko, director of Kharkiv Palace Hotel, was in the hotel at the moment of the strike. This is my homeland.”Kharkiv’s mayorKharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, was elected just a few months before the Ukraine war broke out. To send signals both to Kharkiv residents who stay here that life goes on, and signals to those outside of Kharkiv that Kharkiv is a Ukrainian city and people live here.”Lomako explains that he and his partners traveled across the country to collect local recipes and techniques. Kharkiv theater goes undergroundThis theater in Kharkiv is one of several city institutions forced underground by the war.

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☆ A Ukrainian recon commander in Kharkiv said its first line of defense was missing, in a 'betrayal' that allowed Russian troops to just walk in
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"There was no first line of defense," Denys Yaroslavskyi told the BBC, which reported from Vovchansk on Sunday. Jonathan Beale, a defense correspondent at the outlet, wrote that Yaroslavskyi showed him drone footage of Russian troops walking past Ukraine's northeastern border without resistance. Lying on Kharkiv's northeastern border, Vovchansk is one of Ukraine's closest cities to the Russian region of Belgorod. Related storiesDays earlier, Ukrainian military observers reported that between 30,000 to 35,000 Russian troops had gathered for the push. The Kremlin has since 2022 been accusing Ukraine of shelling Belgorod, though this also comes amid repeated reports of Russian troops misfiring or dropping bombs by mistake on civilians there.

Persons: —, Denys Yaroslavskyi, Jonathan Beale, Yaroslavskyi, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Syrskyi, Vladimir Putin, Vovchansk Organizations: Service, BBC, Business, Reconnaissance Unit, Armed Forces, Ukraine's General Staff, Russian Federation, Kyiv, Russian, NATO Locations: Ukrainian, Kharkiv, Russia, Vovchansk, Ukraine's, Russian, Belgorod, Moscow, Ukraine, The Washington, Kyiv

☆ Ukraine's military chief warns of 'significantly' worsening battlefield situation in the east
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Ukraine's military chief on Saturday warned that the battlefield situation in the industrial east has "significantly worsened in recent days," as warming weather allowed Russian forces to launch a fresh push along several stretches of the more 1,000 km-long (620-mile) front line. It has increasingly used satellite-guided gliding bombs — which allow planes to drop them from a safe distance — to pummel Ukrainian forces beset by a shortage of troops and ammunition. Starting last month, Moscow renewed its assault on Ukrainian energy facilities. At least 10 of the strikes damaged energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. In the winter of 2022-2023, Russia took aim at Ukraine's power grid in an effort to deny civilians light and heating and chip away at the country's appetite for war.

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☆ Zelenskyy is begging for more Patriots to stop Russian strikes and bombs from tearing apart a Ukrainian city
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewRussia has been pounding Ukraine's second largest city with strikes, intensifying its missile, drone, and glide bomb attacks on Kharkiv in recent weeks. The situation is dire, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, and highlights the desperate need for more air-defense systems to keep Ukraine protected. On the heels of the attacks, Zelenskyy said the "situation in Kharkiv is very harsh," noting that "Russians began using guided aerial bombs against the city almost daily." And from March 18-24, just a six-day period, Russia dropped a staggering 700 glide bombs on Ukraine. Speaking about the Patriots on Saturday, Zelenskyy said that "there are air defense systems around the world that can help.

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☆ Russian assault to capture Ukraine's 2nd-largest city can't be ruled out, commander says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The head of Ukraine's armed forces said a Russian offensive against Kharkiv could not be ruled out. AdvertisementThe commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces has said a Russian attack on Kharkiv could not be ruled out. Russian forces inflicted a strike on a residential area district using a modernized UMPB D-30 guided bomb, Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, March 27, 2024. The bomb, also known as a "gliding bomb," has been adapted with a guidance system and wings, enabling Russian forces to employ "stand-off" tactics and strike targets from long range. AdvertisementSuch weapons help Russian forces supplement their "inadequate" stocks of air-launched missiles and allow them to avoid using free-fall bombs that put pilots closer to the firing line, the think tank says.

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☆ Ukrainian drone operator says there are so many drones in the war that 'nobody knows how to advance'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewA Ukrainian drone operator said there are so many drones over parts of Ukraine right now that neither Russian nor Ukrainian soldiers know how to move forward. Gleb Molchanov, who is fighting close to the city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, told The Guardian that "nobody really knows how to advance right now." In fact, he told the outlet that making any military breakthroughs was "almost impossible in an era of cheap and lethally accurate drones." But Molchanov said that Russian forces had achieved some tactical success in Synkivka, a nearby city, using "projectiles," per the outlet.

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☆ Russia's biggest drone strike in weeks hits critical Ukrainian infrastructure
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/7]Emergency personnel work at a site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine November 3, 2023. In the nearby region of Ivano-Frankivsk a military facility was hit, governor Svitlana Onishchuk said. Oleh Kiper, Odesa's regional governor, reported a strike on an infrastructure facility in the southern region. Oleh Synehubov, Kharkiv's governor, said drones had hit civilian infrastructure and caused fires in and near the city of Kharkiv. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said eight private houses, a three-storey building, several cars, and a car repair shop were damaged during the attack on Kharkiv.

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☆ Russian Missile Attack Kills Six in Distribution Centre in Kharkiv-Governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

(Reuters) - A Russian missile hit a postal distribution centre in Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv on Saturday, killing six people and injuring 14, Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehubov said. Synehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said several of the injured were in serious condition in hospital. "This is strictly a civilian site," Synheubov said. Pictures from the scene posted on Telegram showed a building with windows blown out and construction materials strewn about. (Reporting by Ron Popeski and Maria Starkova; Editing by Alistair Bell)

Persons: Oleh Synehubov, Synehubov, Synheubov, Ron Popeski, Maria Starkova, Alistair Bell Organizations: Reuters Locations: Russian, Ukraine's, Kharkiv

☆ A night inside a strip club near Ukraine’s front lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Anna Conkling | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

By mid-afternoon, nine women have gathered around the dance pole at Flash Dancers, the only women-owned exotic dance club in Kharkiv. Valerii Kseniya, Flash Dancers' co-owner, in an undated photograph from her career as a professional dancer (left), and in July 2023. Iva Sidash for InsiderWhen Dana first joined Flash Dancers, Valeriya said, she was shy, silent, and not open to speaking with the team. Iva Sidash for InsiderOver the past year, several soldiers who were regulars at Flash Dancers have been killed in the fighting. Iva Sidash for InsiderThe evening at Flash Dancers could serve as a microcosm of Ukraine's tentative but determined return to normality.

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☆ Ukraine reports casualties in Russian shelling of city of Kharkiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 16 (Reuters) - One man was killed and several people were injured on Sunday in Russian shelling of a district of Kharkiv, the biggest city in eastern Ukraine, local officials said. Oleh Sinehubov, Kharkiv's governor, said on Telegram that one civilian man born in 1999 was killed in the attack on a southern part of Kharkiv. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a total of seven people were injured in the shelling of the southern Osnovyanskyi district of the city. Ukraine recaptured much of the eastern Kharkiv region in September, with Russian forces occupying now only a small strip of land there. Reporting by Elaine Monaghan; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Elderly Japanese man opens free cafe in Ukraine's Kharkiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Fuminori Tsuchiko, 75-year-old humanitarian volunteer from Japan, passes free food to people at his cafe, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine April 24, 2023. Moved by the plight of residents forced by Russian shelling to shelter in subway stations, the 75-year-old Japanese national from Tokyo decided to stay. For months, he said, he lived in a metro station and worked as a volunteer distributing food in the subway. One visitor to the cafe, Anna Tovstopyatova, said she had come to make a donation. Kharkiv held off Russian forces and Ukrainian forces then pushed Russian troops back towards the border.

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Ukraine reels from hypersonic missile attacks; Wagner group possibly taking 'tactical pause' in Bakhmut
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian emergency services are rushing to repair critical energy infrastructure that were hit in a barrage of Russian strikes a day prior. Much of the damage was carried out by Russia's powerful Khinzal hypersonic missile, which can evade air defenses. At least nine people have been killed in Ukraine, in areas across the country and as far west as Lviv. The bloody battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut wages on, but Russian mercenary group Wagner may be taking a "tactical pause," according to the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S. think tank. Kharkiv's governor reports that the energy situation in his city is "difficult," but that critical energy supplies and water have already been "almost completely restored."

KYIV, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Russian missile attacks hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday morning, officials said, and the governor of another region warned that a massive missile strike could follow in the coming hours. Russia, which invaded last February, has been pounding Ukraine's vital energy infrastructure with missiles and drones since October, causing sweeping blackouts and disruptions to central heating and running water as winter bites. "Missile attack on critical infrastructure facilities. The attacks hit critical energy infrastructure and industrial facilities in the Kharkiv and Chuhuev district of the region, he said. Residential infrastructure was also hit in the village of Kopyliv in the Kyiv region just outside the capital.

☆ Retaking Ukraine's Luhansk region is slow going because so many Russian troops fled there in other retreats, its governor said
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The governor of the occupied Luhansk region said many of those who fled ended up there. Haidai Serhiy, the governor of Luhansk, noted wrote on Telegram on Wednesday morning that "many Ukrainians expected the de-occupation of Luhansk Region to be as quick as that of Kharkiv Region." And many Russian troops retreated into Luhansk and the Donetsk regions. Luhansk is still almost entirely occupied by Russian troops, though Ukraine has retaken some small areas since it started its counteroffensive, preventing the region from being fully under Russian control. Serhiy said "freshly mobilized Russians, prisoners, and a lot of equipment and air defense have arrived in Luhansk region."

☆ How a tank the Soviets tried to keep secret became an icon of Ukraine's resistance against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Sebastian Roblin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

An Afghan soldier fighting for the Soviets sits on a Soviet-made T-64 tank near the Salang Pass on August 17, 1989. However, these systems were mostly exported, and it's unclear whether either is currently operational on Ukrainian tanks. Defending Ukraine, 2014-2015A Ukrainian tank in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk in July 2014. A burned Ukrainian tank in Uglegorsk, on the frontline near Debaltseve, in February 2015. A pro-Russian separatist stands guard near a T-64 tank in Donetsk in July 2014.

☆ Explosions heard, power out in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fire is seen at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine September 27, 2022. REUTERS/Sofiia GatilovaKHARKIV, Ukraine, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Three explosions were heard, then electricity cut out on Tuesday in Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv, a Reuters witness reported. Terekhov said an infrastructure facility was hit and said authorities were working to restore power as quickly as possible. The report followed a rocket attack on Kharkiv Sept. 9 in which at least 10 people were wounded. Ukrainian officials said that attack was revenge for its forces' successes on the battlefieldagainst Russia.

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