Kharkiv UK /ˈxɑːkiːv/US /ˈxɑɹkiv/ noun2 •An industrial city, the administrative centre of Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating ‘Russification’), I was a railway buff. — 2024 •An oblast in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kharkiv.But Ukraine claimed its forces had shot down one of these drones for the first time last month near the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv. — 2022
