Kharkiv

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1. citiesAn industrial city, the administrative centre of Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.

   As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating ‘Russification’), I was a railway buff.

   2024 September 4th, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine’s ‘Second Army’”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46

2. districtA raion of Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kharkiv.
3. provinceAn oblast in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kharkiv.

   But Ukraine claimed its forces had shot down one of these drones for the first time last month near the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv.

   2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN

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   The Russian military command likely chose the seizure of Vovchansk as one of the key tactical objectives of the first phase of the offensive operation in northern Kharkiv Oblast, since Vovchansk is the largest settlement immediately on the border that would provide Russian forces a staging ground close to the Russian rear to prepare for and launch the second phase of the Russian offensive operation.

   2024 May 26, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 25 May: Ukrainians NULLIFY BRAND NEW RUSSIAN ENCIRCLEMENT OPERATION | War in Ukraine Explained, via YouTube, 2:23–2:44

   We switch to the developments along the front line and, uh, the Ukrainians are reporting that the Russians do reconnaissance forces… send reconnaissance forces over the border in Chernihiv, in Sumy, as well as in Kharkiv, so basically along the whole northern border.

   2025 April 23, Torsten Heinrich, “Trump wants Ukraine’s Capitulation. He won’t get it. Ukraine SITREP”, in Military & History, via YouTube, 4:21–4:37

4. riverA river in eastern Ukraine.
5. abbreviationellipsisastronomyEllipsis of 9167 Kharkiv: an asteroid in Asteroid Belt, Solar System.