Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Brian Mefford: Did Kharkiv just become Russia’s next target in Ukraine war?
A girl places flowers on Feb. 23 above the pictures of two people killed by a bomb on Feb. 22 in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
In Russia's campaign to re-assert control over Ukraine, a logical target for its "hybrid war" is Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city and a center of its Russian-speaking population. And indeed, Russia has been working steadily to destabilize Kharkiv (just 25 miles from Russia's border) as it has done the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk, further south.
