Kharkiv

May 14, 2022, 3:02 pm

Ukraine says Russian troops pushed out of Kharkiv as war enters ‘long-term’ phase

Meanwhile, Russia’s offensive in Donbas appears to be turning into a village-by-village, back-and-forth fight with no major breakthroughs on either side

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and david keyton

Illustrative: In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives for his meeting the day before with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

May 8, 2022, 5:05 pm

Zelensky and Putin double down on mutual Holocaust, Nazi comparisons

In video posted for Ukraine’s Remembrance Day, Zelensky repeatedly compares WWII atrocities to alleged Russian present-day crimes; Putin vows to defeat Ukrainian ‘Nazism’

By Michael Horovitz and AFP

Klavidia, 91, is carried on an improvised stretcher as she boards a train, fleeing the fighting in Severodonetsk at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

April 30, 2022, 10:13 am

US slams Putin’s ‘depravity,’ dismisses Russia’s Ukraine invasion reasoning as ‘BS’

Emotional Pentagon spokesman says of Russian president that no ‘ethical, moral individual could justify’ what Moscow’s troops are doing; 1 killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv

By Agencies

A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid the rubble of a building heavily damaged by multiple Russian bombardments near a frontline in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

April 26, 2022, 7:12 pm

Russia intensifies attacks in Ukraine’s Donbas as West scrambles to arm Kyiv

At least nine killed in Russian attacks on towns and cities in eastern and southern Ukraine; dozens of strikes pound Mariupol plant where last fighters holed up

By YESICA FISCH and Jon Gambrell

People watch flames coming out of an appartement in a residential building of the northern outskirts of Kharkiv following shelling, on April 22, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

April 23, 2022, 4:57 pm

In Kharkiv, residents try to maintain normalcy amid regular Russian attacks

Moscow has failed to capture Ukraine’s second-largest city but it remains within artillery range, subject to random devastating strikes at any hour, day or night

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Children watch puppeteer Oleksandra Shlykova (L) as she performs at the metro stations of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on April 16, 2022. (Maryke Vermaak/AFP)

April 17, 2022, 3:14 pm

Puppets, poetry go underground to entertain Ukrainians sheltering in Kharkiv metro

‘We exchange emotions and it lifts our spirits,’ says puppeteer putting on shows for kids and their parents seeking protection from Russian strikes

By Joe STENSON

Firefighters work to extinguish multiple fires after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

April 17, 2022, 12:17 pm

Kyiv pauses civilian evacuations from eastern Ukraine amid ceasefire disagreement

Russia claims to have ‘destroyed’ military factory outside Kyiv as fears mount of a renewed offensive by Moscow

By AFP

A machine gun emerges from under a Ukrainian national flag on a front line position near Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

March 27, 2022, 11:15 am

Ukraine said to recapture several villages, as Russia hits Kharkiv nuclear facility

Poltavka and Malynivka ‘successfully liberated,’ Ukraine says; man detained on suspicion of espionage in Lviv; Russia detains Slavutych mayor, sparking protests

By TOI staff and Agencies

Musicians play for people living in a metro station used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 26, 2022. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

March 26, 2022, 9:54 pm

Ukrainian musicians hold concert in bombed Kharkiv’s subway

Listeners have been living in the underground station for weeks amid Russian onslaught

By Hervé BAR

The damaged Drobytsky Yar memorial near Kharkiv after reportedly being hit by Russian artillery fire, on March 26, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

March 26, 2022, 4:56 pm

Ukraine says Holocaust memorial smashed in Russian strikes near Kharkiv

Kyiv’s foreign minister lashes Russia for attack near Drobytsky Yar, where 15,000 Jews were killed during World War II, says he expects Israel to condemn Russia

By TOI staff

Flames and smoke rise from a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

March 25, 2022, 9:22 pm

Russia claims 1st phase of invasion over; 4 dead in attack on Kharkiv medical center

Moscow says troops will now focus on ‘liberation’ of Donbas region; Kyiv says talks ‘very difficult’; residents of Kharkiv claim Russia using cluster munitions on civilian areas

By Agencies and TOI staff

Boris Romantschenko appears at a memorial ceremony in Buchenwald in 2015. (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)

March 21, 2022, 8:49 pm

96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv

Boris Romantschenko, who was not Jewish, survived four concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald

By AFP

Illustrative: Israeli doctors from LeMa'anam - For Their Sake: Physicians for Holocaust Survivors - give medical assistance to a Jewish Ukrainian who fled a war zone in Ukraine, at an emergency shelter in Chisinau, Moldova, March 13, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)

March 20, 2022, 8:25 pm

Israeli doctors and medical organizations rally to help Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainian-born Israeli doctor’s attempt to get food and medicine to grandfather trapped in Kharkiv morphs into project to supply medical equipment to hospitals

By Sue Surkes

Firefighters extinguish an apartment house after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)

March 15, 2022, 9:42 pm

Hillel Jewish student from Kharkiv killed while ‘defending Ukraine’

Serafim Sabaranskiy decided to pick up arms and defend his city; ‘He died a hero,’ Hillel says; Chabad center destroyed by Russian shelling as city remains united in its resistance

By Tobias Siegal

Vitaly Gerasimov (Ukraine Defense Ministry/Wikipedia)

March 8, 2022, 5:11 pm

Ukraine claims it killed senior Russian general near Kharkiv

Kyiv releases audio it says is of an intercepted phone call of Russian officers lamenting death of Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov

By AP and TOI staff