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City of Kharkiv is 400 miles North of the Crimea.
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City of Kharkiv is in North Eastern Ukraine - far from Crimea which is in the South Eastern corner of Ukraine.
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Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine with 1.5 Million. Kiev is the largest with 2.5 million people.
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Kiev, the capital of Ukraine is 300 miles due west of Kharkiv, closer than the Crimea.
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Kharkiv is 29 Miles from the Russian border - and 50 miles from the Russian city of Belgorod.
Russian irregular forces ( aka Pro-Russian "demonstrators" ) are beating pro-Ukrainian unarmed civilians attempting to protect Ukranian government buildings, and the "Pro-Russian demonstrators" are taking those government buildings by force.
The Russian irregular forces are the adult men, mostly younger adult men, wearing black watch caps and black chukka boots, with less blood on their heads and faces, while the Ukrainians are the middle age men, children and young men mixed together with more blood, often seen sprawled, or sitting, on the ground, wearing various styles of tennis shoes. The young men on the roof are the "pro-Russian protestors" celebrating having seized the Ukrainian government building.
These men, now in control of the Ukrainian government building(s) in the North-Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. are the "Russian citizens" the regular Russian military will have to "save" in North Eastern Ukraine if Russia continues to expand the invasion into all of eastern Ukraine.
Below are pictures from the city of Kharkiv likely from Saturday.
The link further below is the location of the slideshow that contains more panoramic versions of these pictures with a wider field of view.
Pictures from the North Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv:
Slide show with more panoramic versions of above pictures with a wider field of view::
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/world ... raine.html