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A 45-year-old man from Kharkiv was arrested by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) on May 9 for allegedly tracking Ukrainian firing position, and providing coordinates to Russian intelligence officers. According to a statement released by the SBU, the unnamed man was arrested at his home in the Vovchansk district of Kharkiv. The man is accused of surveying and tracking Ukrainian positions, having recorded coordinates on Google Maps to provide to Russian intelligence officers. During the SBU's investigation, the suspect's cell phone, with alleged correspondence to Russian intelligence officials, w...
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Russia is forming a grouping of forces north of the city of Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on national television on May 8. Moscow recently intensified attacks against Kharkiv, which had a population of 1.4 million in 2021, with the use of missiles, glide bombs, and drones, destroying energy infrastructure and killing civilians. Russian forces failed to take Kharkiv in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion despite the fact that the city lies less than 30 kilometers from the Russian border. Russia "would need years" to occupy Kharkiv, Oleksandr Pivnenko, a commander of Ukraine's Na...
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Russian forces struck a residential area in downtown Kharkiv on May 5, injuring at least 10 people on Orthodox Easter Sunday, according to local authorities. Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov initially said at 2 p.m. local time that five people were injured as Russia struck Ukraine’s second-largest city with a guided bomb, without specifying the type of bomb. Russia uses laser-guided or satellite-guided KAB bombs, with payloads ranging from 250 to 1,500 kilograms, against Ukrainian military and civilian targets. Soviet-era dumb bombs are fitted with cheap gliding kits, allowing them to f...
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Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Russia launched drone attacks on Kharkiv in the early hours of May 4, damaging civilian infrastructure, and injuring at least four people including a child, Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on Telegram. According to Syniehubov, Russian forces launched two drone strikes hitting infrastructure in the Osnoviansky district of the city. Two women aged 52 and 89, as well as a 13-year-old girl have been injured as a result of the attack. Another women is being treated for shock. The 52-year-old woman and 13-year old wer...
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KHARKIV – In the face of relentless Russian attacks, prolonged blackouts, and a looming threat of a new major offensive, against all odds, life in Kharkiv continues to endure. Located just 30 kilometers from the Russian border, Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has been under some of the heaviest and most frequent attacks since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. Due to the recent Russian bombardment of the energy system, the city is now struggling with rolling blackouts. And as Ukraine expects a major Russian advance in the surrounding region in the next several months, Kharki...
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Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. A Russian strike against two districts of the northeastern city of Kharkiv on April 30 killed at least one person and injured at least nine, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on television. The authorities initially reported two people killed, but Terekhov said at around 11:15 a.m. local time that previous reports of a second fatality had not been confirmed. Russian forces reportedly targeted the Kyivskyi and Kholodnohirskyi districts of the city, hitting residential areas, according to the mayor. Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported that Rus...
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At least four people were killed and 29 injured in a Russian missile strike on Odesa on April 29, local officials have said. According to Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper, a missile struck residential buildings and civilian infrastructure. "Unfortunately, two people and a dog died as a result of the Russian missile attack," he said initially, adding: "Another eight people were injured of varying severity, including a 12-year-old boy." In a later post on Telegram, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said the death toll had risen to four and the number of injured to 29. Media reports said one...
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Russian forces and Kremlin propagandists are conducting a combined effort to destroy the city of Kharkiv and cause a mass exodus of civilians, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported on April 22. Moscow has recently intensified attacks against Kharkiv using missiles, glide bombs, and drones to destroy infrastructure and kill civilians. These are being combined with information operations designed to sow "outsized panic" among the population while fuelling rumors of an impending Russian ground offensive to take the city, the ISW said. "The Kremlin is conducting a concerted air and inf...
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Russian forces may be preparing for a large-scale offensive in late spring or summer, aiming to capture more land in Ukraine's partially-occupied Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the Financial Times reported on April 13, citing unnamed Ukrainian and Western officials. Ukrainian officials also said that Russia might plan to attack Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city that is located close to the Russian border, FT reported. As crucial military aid for Ukraine remains stalled in the U.S. Congress, outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces are struggling to repel intensifyin...
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Key developments on April 8: Russian missile ship set on fire near Kaliningrad, Ukraine's intelligence claimsIAEA confirms 3 direct strikes on main reactor containment structures of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power PlantThe Economist: Russian attacks aim to make Kharkiv uninhabitable for civiliansMedia: Russia destroys over 60,000 hectares of Ukrainian forestsRussian attack on industrial facility in Zaporizhzhia kills 3, injures 8.The Russian missile ship Serpukhov, which was docked off the exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, was set on fire on April 8, Ukraine's military intelligence claimed....
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