Kharkiv / Catherine Razinkova â worx - ShockBlast - Kharkiv, a city of 1.5 million people about 25 miles from the border with russia, has emerged as a major linchpin in russian efforts to push .
Kharkiv, russian kharkov, city, northeastern ukraine. It was founded about 1655 as a . Kharkiv was the first capital of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic, from december 1919 to ja…