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Kharkiv Strikes (2022–present)
The Russian Armed Forces have launched several rocket attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 2022 February 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing On 28 February 2022, a series of rocket strikes by the Russian Armed Forces killed nine civilians and wounded 37 more during the battle of Kharkiv. The Russian Army used cluster munition in the attack. Due to the indiscriminate nature of these weapons used in densely populated areas, Human Rights Watch described these strikes as a possible war crime. Kharkiv government building airstrike On 1 March 2022, Russian forces attacked the government administrative building of the Kharkiv Oblast, located in the city of Kharkiv. March 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing On 24 March 2022, a rocket strike by the Russian Armed Forces killed 6 civilians and wounded 15 more during the battle of Kharkiv, part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Army used 9N210/9N235 cluster munition and BM-27 Uragan multiple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen River, Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like South Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of North Korea, adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city. The Korean Peninsula was first inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the late 7th century, Korea was ruled by the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahed Drones
Shahed drones are Iranian unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) and loitering munitions (exploding kamikaze drones) developed by Shahed Aviation Industries. Shahed drones are manufactured both in Iran and in Russia, with the Russian variant building upon Iranian plans. Both variants were deployed by Russian forces against Ukraine during the Russian invasion. ''"Shahed"'' translates from both Persian and Arabic to "witness". List of models Models include the following (in numeric order): Development Iran The drones are developed by Shahed Aviation Industries. They are produced using domestic companies and local resources. Despite international sanctions against Iran, claimed to be made of commercial parts from companies headquartered in the United States, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Japan, and Poland. Due to their commercial availability, the components are poorly regulated or uncontrolled, and according to a Ukrainian report submitted to the G7, the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budy, Ukraine
Budy (, ) is a rural settlement in Kharkiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Merefa, in the drainage basin of the Don. Budy belongs to Pivdenne urban hromada. Population: Until 26 January 2024, Budy was designated urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So .... On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Budy became a rural settlement. Economy Transportation Budy railway station, located in the settlement, is on the railway connecting Liubotyn and Merefa. There is infrequent passenger traffic. The settlement is included in the road network of Kharkiv urban agglomeration. References {{authority control Rural settlements in Kharkiv Raion Kharkovsky Uezd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Tap Strike
A double tap (named after the shooting technique where two shots are fired in rapid succession at the same target) is the practice of following a strike (be it bombardment such missile, air strikes, artillery shelling, or detonation of explosive weapon or improvised explosive device) with a second strike several minutes later, hitting emergency responders and medical personnel rushing to the site. A ''Florida Law Review'' article argued that the practice likely is a war crime since it grossly violates the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which prohibit targeting civilians, the wounded, or those no longer able to continue fighting (''hors de combat''). The double-tap strikes became the subject of debate during the US war in Afghanistan. Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan and Yemen, by Israel in Gaza in 2014 and also during Gaza war in 2024, by Russia and the Syrian government in the Syrian civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrialnyi District, Kharkiv
Industrialnyi District () is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after its industrial hub built in 1930s at its city's eastern outskirts. It was originally developed as a "socialist city" (''sotsgorod'') to house the workers of the newly built Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ). In 1936 the district was named Ordzhonikidzevskyi after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Stalin's commissar for heavy industry. On 24 October 1941, after a four-day battle, Kharkiv and the district was occupied by German forces. In advance of the Germans, most of the industrial plant, including the KhTZ, had been dismantled and moved east or rendered inoperative. On 14 December, the German ''Stadtkommandant'' ordered the Jewish population to be concentrated in a hut settlement near the KhTZ. In two days, 20,000 Jews were gathered there. Those an SS ''Sonderkommando'' did not shoot were killed throughout January in a gas van. The district and the city were liberated by Soviet forces in February 1943. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Kharkiv Offensive
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. ''The Guardian'' reported that the offensive led to Russia's biggest territorial gains in 18 months. By early June the Russian offensive stalled, with ''The Guardian'' reporting that the situation on the frontline had been "stabilized." Ukrainian forces then began small-scale counterattacks, which reportedly recaptured a settlement on 19 June. The Russian armed forces have also launched raids into Sumy Oblast and other segments of Kharkiv Oblast, in an effort to draw Ukrainian resources away from the main offensive in Kharkiv. Similarly, Ukrainian forces have launched raids into Belgorod Oblast, while some western analysts attribute the 2024 Kursk offensive as a diversion from Kharkiv. Background On February 24, 2022, the opening day of the Russian invasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrinform
The National News Agency of Ukraine (), or Ukrinform (), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of IndependenceУкраїнському національному інформаційному агентству «Укрінформ» — 90 років. Вітаємо! Телекритика (March 17, 2008) as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov, when the agency name was ''The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency''. Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslava Mudroho (Kharkiv Metro)
Yaroslava Mudroho () is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. Construction on the station began on 16 April 1977, and it opened on 10 August 1984 as ''Pushkinska'', making it the eighth station of the Saltivska Line. It is located in Kharkiv's city center, beneath Yaroslava Mudroho Square at the intersection of the Yaroslava Mudroho and Hryhorii Skovoroda streets. From its opening until 29 April 2024, the station was named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Station The metro station lies more than underground which makes it the deepest station of the Kharkiv Metro system. The station was opened on 10 August 1984 as "Pushkinska" under a street named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin since 1899 (present-day Hryhoriia Skorovody street). Renaming "Pushkinska" to "Yaroslava Mudroho" On 12 January 2024 a bas-relief of Alexander Pushkin was removed from the metro station and other artwork in the station that had incorporated poetry by Aleksandr Pushkin was also re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharkiv Metro
The Kharkiv Metro () is the rapid transit system that serves the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after Kyiv Metro, Kyiv) and the sixth in the Soviet Union, USSR when it opened on 22–23 August,The official opening ceremony was held on 22 August, with the Metro system being opened to the general public on 23 August. 1975.Official Web Site (24 June 2019) The metro consists of three lines that operate on of the route and serve 30 stations. The system transported 223 million passengers in 2018 (up from 212.85 million in 2017). History Initial plans for a rapid transit system in Kharkiv were made when the city was the capital of the Ukrainian Sovie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hryhorii Skovoroda
Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda (; , ; , ; 3 December 1722 – 9 November 1794), was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations and his way of life were universally regarded as Socratic, and he was often called a "Socrates". Skovoroda, whose native tongue was vernacular Ukrainian, wrote his texts in a mixture of three languages: Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Russian, with some elements from Latin and Greek and a large number of Western-Europeanisms. Different views exist about how to characterize the base language upon which he developed his highly individual idiom. One scholar has identified this base language as the variety of Russian spoken by the upper classes in Kharkiv and the surrounding Sloboda Ukraine region; this version of Russian contained many Ukrainianis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet,Short biography from University of Virginia . Retrieved 24 November 2006.Allan Reid, "Russia's Greatest Poet/Scoundrel" Retrieved 2 September 2006. as well as the founder of modern Russian literature [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
