The Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast, officially the Kharkov Military–Civilian Administration, [b] is an ongoing military occupation that began on 24 February 2022, after Russian forces invaded Ukraine and began capturing and occupying parts of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

On 10 May 2024, the Russian Armed Forces began an offensive operation in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, shelling and attempting to breach the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Vovchansk and Kharkiv. [4] . The Guardian reported that the offensive has led to Russia's biggest territorial gains in 18 months. [5] .

Apr 20, 2024 · Russia is exploiting enduring air defense shortages in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, to pummel its energy infrastructure, terrorize its residents and those in its rural surroundings.

May 12, 2024 · In Kharkiv, Russia is using all too familiar tactics to advance – reducing Ukrainian villages and towns to rubble. Oleksii estimates that Russia’s been firing around 50 to 60 shells every...

May 12, 2024 · Ukraine’s top general says the situation in the northern Kharkiv region has “significantly worsened” after Russia claimed to have captured four further villages as it expanded its surprise...

Kharkiv was a major target for Russian forces in the eastern Ukraine campaign during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine before they were pushed back to the Russia–Ukraine border. The city remains under intermittent Russian fire , with reports that almost a quarter of the city was destroyed by April 2024.

May 11, 2024 · On Friday at dawn, Russian troops launched a complex attack with aircraft, artillery, infantry troops and armor, surging across the border near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.

KYIV, May 10 (Reuters) - Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv in the northeast of the country and made small inroads, opening a new...

3 days ago · Item 1 of 5 A firefighter works at a site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine January 28, 2025.

May 10, 2024 · Russian forces have made two cross-border assaults inside northern Ukraine, according to information from Ukrainian sources and officials, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling a “new...