Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: 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 āwhina ia ki te whakakore i te nui ake i te 26,000 o ngā pōro, ngā māina, me ngā poma Tiamana i te Pakanga o Stalingrad me te
Te Pakanga o Kiev (1943). 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.