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Kharkiv

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[kahr-keev, khahr-kiv] / kɑrˈkiv, ˈxɑr kɪv /
  1. a city in northeastern Ukraine: former capital of Ukraine.


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The department also said it had taken control of Bochkove, a village in the Kharkiv region, on Saturday morning, according to state-linked news agency Tass.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

In northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Lieutenant Colonel Vasyl Kobziak told AFP on Sunday morning that things were "rather calm" in his sector.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

AFP had first met him a few months earlier in the northeastern Kharkiv region, where he said drones "will reach the target 90 percent of the time -- if the pilot is good".

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Bohodukhiv is west of Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, where a power plant was damaged earlier in February.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

The attack left nearly 2,000 apartment buildings without heating in Kyiv and Kharkiv, with the temperatures dropping to 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

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