A few days after his arrival, Mr. Barry wrote that he was afraid of a planned trip to Kharkiv because “everyone I talked to about it believed there was a very strong possibility that I would die.”

Source: https://www.mariontoday.org/russia-fires-missiles-at-ukraine-live-updates/

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.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-07/la-fg-ukraine-russia-surrender-hotline

Andryi Anisimov, 49, who served in Donbas as a sergeant from 2018 to 2021, was also kidnapped by Russian soldiers in the Kharkiv region and branded on his leg.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/02/russians-hunted-down-veterans-of-donbas-conflict-ukraine

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.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/10/08/ukraine-expects-record-number-of-drone-attacks-this-winter-air-force/

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.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/russia-pounds-kharkiv-with-missiles-and-drones-ukraine-says/article_73dca0c2-45f4-5250-b288-230c3608f019.html

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.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/russia-pounds-kharkiv-with-missiles-and-drones-ukraine-says/article_73dca0c2-45f4-5250-b288-230c3608f019.html

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.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-museum-director-who-stayed-behind-to-defend-ukrainian-literature

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.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12042377/How-Kyivs-elite-troops-compare-Putins-ultimate-forces.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

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

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/6-dead-russian-rocket-strike-ukraine-reports-record-104204395

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.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/russian-missile-kills-two-women-at-market-in-east-ukraine---prosecutors/article_3b453834-48a7-549f-9cfd-f721700e1524.html

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.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5465152/ukraines-northeastern-front-could-decide-new-battle-lines-2/

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.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1718355/ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-russia-mobilisation-troops-soldiers-intelligence

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

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/world/russia-ukraine-update-russian-strike-on-village-kills-50-ukrainian-officials-say-as-zelenskyy-seeks-more-western-support/a82ac778-7d00-4151-8d8c-fd88f4a5d31a

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.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/20/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-635?traffic_source=rss

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

Source: https://time.com/6247465/ukraine-russia-missiles/

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

Source: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russian-air-strikes-hit-kryvyi-rih-in-central-ukraine-183898

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

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/world/europe/russia-ukraine-missile-wave.html

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.

Source: https://www.fark.com/comments/12834652?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark

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

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/11/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-381-of-the-invasion

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.

Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/russia-ukraine-war-easter-pope-francis-6040477-Apr2023/