Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I te tau 1941 ka noho a Kharchenko hei kaitiaki tuarua me te rangatira o te roopu i roto i te 22 Detached Engineering and anti-gas battalion of Local Anti-Aircraft Defence troops. I te tau 1942 ka hoki mai ia ki te waahanga i mahi ai ia i nga tuunga kore-kaupapa - ki te 6th Engineering me te anti-gas regiment o nga ope a te NKVD anti-aircraft defense. I awhina ia ki te whakakore i te neke atu i te 26,000 nga pupuhi Tiamana, nga maina me nga poma i te Pakanga o Stalingrad me te Pakanga o Kiev (1943)
He aha? I te 2 o Noema 1944, i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te taitara o te Toa o te Soviet Union me te Order o Lenin mo ana mahi ki te whakakore i nga patu me nga maina.