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Friday, 17 April 2026, 03:04
The European Union needs new tools to overcome non-constructive blockages of decisions, including those taken in support of Ukraine, by individual member states.
The European Union must strengthen societal preparedness for crises and incorporate lessons learned from Ukraine’s experience during Russia’s full-scale military aggression.
Ukrainian intelligence has information that Russia intends to continue carrying out terrorist attacks in Ukraine.
Law enforcement officials have charged a 33-year-old resident of Kostopil, Rivne region, with committing a terrorist act in Lviv.
The Russian military struck a residential area in a community in the Sumy region with two guided aerial bombs, leaving several people wounded.
The town of Yampil in the Donetsk region is under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Almost all of the victims of the terrorist attack in the Lviv hospitals are emergency service workers who responded to the call, two of whom are in critical condition.
Four women were wounded today during Russian shelling in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released video footage of combat operations during a combined Russian attack on Sunday, February 22.
Russian troops struck Mykolaiv while a rally in support of prisoners of war was taking place in the city.
In the Kyiv region, the number of people injured in a combined Russian attack on Sunday, February 22, has risen to 17, including four children.
The Joint Forces Task Force clarified that HIMARS systems do not have reload vehicles, and FP-5 Flamingo missiles are fired from simple launch rails. Therefore, the Russian Armed Forces’ claim of destroying such vehicles and launchers is false.
Since the start of the day, Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops have engaged in 53 clashes, with active fighting ongoing in five sectors.
The suspected perpetrator of a terrorist attack in Lviv has been detained in a controlled border area near the town of Staryi Sambir in the Lviv region.
Despite difficulties on the battlefield, Ukraine’s armed forces succeeded in disrupting Russia’s large-scale offensive plans in 2025, including preventing the capture of the entire Donbas as well as territories in three regions, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, believes.
The past year of the war became the first for the Russian military in which its manpower losses in Ukraine exceeded its level of recruitment.
Russia, together with representatives of the Lukashenko regime, including former Belarusian Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov, has set up a multi-tier network to remove agricultural products from Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories and launder them as “Russian” or “Belarusian,” with subsequent deliveries to third-country markets.
The Air Assault Forces (AAF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating in the Oleksandrivka sector of the front, have already neutralized Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the area of more than 300 square kilometers and restored control over eight settlements.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed the Ministry of Defense to deploy additional forces to strengthen air defense in the Sumy region.
Ukrainian assault units carried out counterattacks near Ternove and Kalynivske on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, successfully pushing back the enemy.
Russia attacked the railway infrastructure in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions overnight.
Russian troops are increasing pressure near Platonivka, Bondarne, and Pryvillia on the Sloviansk and Kramatorsk axes. However, Ukrainian forces are holding their lines and maintaining control of the situation.
As of the morning of February 22, Ukraine is experiencing power outages in the Odesa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Poltava regions due to a combined Russian missile and drone strike on energy infrastructure and shelling along the front lines.
In Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, only a few buildings remain under the control of Russian forces, housing several dozen soldiers.
The National Police, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, have detained the suspected attacker responsible for the Lviv police bombing.
In the Kyiv region, the number of people injured in Russia's February 22 missile and drone attack has risen to 15, including four children. One fatality has also been confirmed.
Thanks to asymmetric solutions in the information sphere, Ukraine can effectively counter Russian propaganda even with significantly fewer resources.
Over the past week, Russia launched about 1,300 attack drones, more than 1,400 guided aerial bombs, and 96 missiles of various types at Ukraine.
As of 10:00 on Sunday, February 22, Ukrainian forces had neutralized 33 missiles and 274 drones of various types used by Russia against Ukraine since the evening of February 21.