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Friday, 17 April 2026, 05:26
The United States is far more interested in gaining access to Russian raw materials and involving American companies than in supporting Ukraine, and European countries must clearly distance themselves from any possible “dirty” deals between the U.S. and Russia.
Since the start of the day, the Russian army has attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders 57 times, concentrating the greatest activity in the Huliaipole sector and also maintaining high activity in the Pokrovsk sector.
Work is underway in the Armed Forces of Ukraine to establish a vertical structure of digital officers who will introduce innovations within the military. The first digital officer has already been appointed.
The issue of returning Ukrainian men of conscription age who are under temporary protection is currently not on the EU agenda, and no changes to the relevant provisions are expected this year.
Contractors of Energoatom who paid kickbacks to figures implicated in the so-called Midas case may avoid criminal liability if they voluntarily report the bribes to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine before detectives establish the fact of bribery.
The European Commission welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's readiness to accept the results of an inspection of the damaged Druzhba pipeline by a relevant mission initiated by Hungary and Slovakia, but the format of such a mission has not yet been determined.
The High Anti-Corruption Court has ordered the detention of Volodymyr Kompanychenko, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) office in the Zhytomyr region, with the option of release on bail set at UAH 6.988 million.
Ukraine is open to cooperation with Botswana concerning the possible recruitment of its citizens by Russia for the war.
Assistance to Ukraine in resisting Russian aggression is critically important from the standpoint of defending Europe’s fundamental values.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with former Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and discussed the foreign policy situation surrounding Ukraine with him.
The lower house of the Polish parliament on Friday passed a resolution expressing solidarity with Ukraine on the fourth anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale aggression.
As part of its accession process to the European Union, Ukraine has already implemented complex, long-term institutional reforms in the areas of the rule of law and anti-corruption.
Pilots of the "Phoenix" unit of the State Border Guard Service filmed and released a video of a real hell in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region – the shelling of the city with phosphorus munitions.
During a meeting in Brussels held in the Ramstein format, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov presented Ukraine’s war plan to international partners, as well as the projects and operations that need to be carried out.
The government is ready to ensure annual pension indexation starting March 1. Pensions and insurance payments will be indexed by 12.1%, and the increase will affect about 10 million Ukrainians.
The first batch of food, weighing 2,618.15 tons, has arrived in Kenya as part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's humanitarian initiative, Food from Ukraine.
In response to the parade of North Korean troops who fought against Ukraine in Kursk, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi recalled the danger of cooperation between North Korea and Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is currently holding talks with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, believes that it is pointless to talk about holding presidential elections in Ukraine under the current conditions.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reached a new local truce in the area of the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which came into effect to restore the plant's backup power supply via the 330 kV line.
The prosecutor of the Prosecutor General's Office will petition the High Anti-Corruption Court for preventive measures in the form of arrest with the possibility of bail in the amount of UAH 320 million for the head of the Security Service of Ukraine in Zhytomyr region Volodymyr Kompanychenko and the commander of logistics of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Ukraintsev.
A Molniya drone struck a civilian enterprise in the Osnovianskyi district of Kharkiv.
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Office of the President, believes that a change of regime in the Kremlin will not change the aggressive nature of the Russian Federation – the strategic goal should be to divide the aggressor country into several states, since only the eradication of Moscow's imperial ambitions will guarantee world security.
The Ministry of Defense quickly responded to the problem of Russian drones using Starlink and, after reaching an agreement with Elon Musk and SpaceX, effectively cut off Russian troops' communications. In particular, the number of streams used by the Russians decreased 11-fold.
In the Sumy community, Russian troops destroyed a school by sending a drone to strike it.
As of the morning of February 27, due to enemy shelling of energy infrastructure, consumers in six regions of Ukraine are without power.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he sees a “window” of opportunity for achieving peace between now and the US midterm elections in November.
In the village of Pidserednie, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, the death toll from the Russian attack has risen to two, with rescuers recovering the body of a woman from under the rubble.
The Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police, and the Prosecutor's Office have uncovered a scheme to embezzle over 50 million hryvnias of state-owned enterprise funds allocated for emergency repair work at the Trypillia Thermal Power Plant after Russian shelling.