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Friday, 17 April 2026, 07:25
In the Pokrovsk sector, soldiers of the Airborne Assault Forces are using automatic rifles to take out Russian troops moving on motorcycles.
Russia attacked Ukraine with nearly 500 drones and cruise missiles on Friday, rejecting diplomacy and responding to Ukraine's proposal for an Easter ceasefire with brutal strikes.
In the coming days, the Ukrainian party will finalize the security guarantees document by addressing the remaining questions in this area. Once the documents have been agreed upon, a U.S. delegation may arrive in Kyiv.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, units of the Air Assault Forces have already liberated 11 settlements from which all civilians have been evacuated.
The Ukrainian side has passed on to the United States its request regarding a proposal to the Russians for an Easter ceasefire.
Fighters of the Lasar's Group special unit of unmanned aerial systems of the National Guard of Ukraine, in coordination with adjacent units, have destroyed a Russian Palantin electronic warfare (EW) system on the Zaporizhzhia front.
Russian troops have intensified their assault operations in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration, using light vehicles, including ATVs, and attempting to advance along the flanks toward Hryshyne and Rodynske.
Ukraine is working to strengthen the protection of its railway network as well as water infrastructure, including bridges, dams, hydroelectric power plants, and pumping stations.
The number of people wounded in today’s Russian attacks on Sumy has increased to four.
In the Kyiv region, one person was killed and another wounded as a result of a massive Russian attack on April 3.
Over the past month, the Ukrainian Operation Task Force East has eliminated over 6,500 Russian invaders, with nearly 4,000 more accounted for as enemy casualties.
In the central part of Sumy, a Russian drone struck a shopping center, injuring two people.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces attacked four border communities in the Chernihiv region with FPV drones, causing extensive damage and resulting in casualties.
As of the morning of April 3, power outages have affected users in six regions due to drone attacks and artillery shelling.
On the night of Thursday, April 3, Moscow and the Leningrad Region of the Russian Federation were attacked by drones.
On the morning of April 3, Russian forces attacked a minibus in Kherson with a drone; five people were injured.
Olha Zvonariova, a journalist with the Ukrainian National News Agency Ukrinform, has been named a laureate of this year's Italian Montecatini Prize for Journalism (Premio Montecatini di Giornalismo-2026).
Five people, including an infant, were injured in Kharkiv as a result of Russian attacks overnight on April 3.
On April 2, 230 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the frontline.
Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the Shostka community in the Sumy region on April 3, killing one person and injuring three others.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched 856 strikes on 45 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, leaving four people injured.
Russia's total combat losses in its full-scale war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to April 3, 2026 have reached approximately 1,301,260 personnel, including 1,230 soldiers killed or wounded in action over the past 24 hours.
Under the Seeds of Bravery project, Ukrainian startups have received EUR 12 million in funding.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered and dismantled a large-scale draft evasion scheme in Cherkasy organized by local medical workers.
Units of Ukraine's State Emergency Service (SES) have cleared nearly 200,000 hectares of territory and neutralized 600,000 explosive devices since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
At Russia's Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, Ukrainian drone strikes in March damaged at least 40% of oil storage tanks, significantly reducing export volumes.
Russian forces struck Kharkiv with four ballistic missiles early on Friday, damaging residential buildings and injuring a woman.
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka said that important agreements between Ukraine and the Netherlands were reached during this year’s Lviv Conference, held in the Dutch city of Breda.
An exhibition titled “Easter Garden” by singer, artist, and volunteer Anzhelika Rudnytska is currently on display in Kyiv.