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17 April 2023
The U.S. Department of Defense reported that Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in a phone call on Monday discussed the current situation in the security sector.
Today, April 17, the Russian army shelled five communities in border areas of Sumy region, including Velyka Pysarivka, Bilopillia, Shalyhyne, Seredyna-Buda, and Hlukhiv communities.
In the Bakhmut sector, the enemy increased the number of heavy artillery attacks and airstrikes.
Ukrainian drones can fly to Moscow and further, according to Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Canada’s Ministry of Defense showed the process of sending a Leopard 2 tank to Poland, which is destined for Ukraine.
Russia has already stopped the offensive and switched to defense, except for two sectors.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held meetings as part of preparations for another meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
Ukrainian defenders on Monday repelled over 50 enemy attacks in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka sectors.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin as part of a working visit to the United States met with the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense, Robert Storch, to discuss control over the assistance being provided to Ukraine by international partners.
As a result of Russia's atrocities in the war against Ukraine, NATO countries are preparing to become a war-ready alliance again, as it was during the Cold War, ready to defend every inch of its member states' territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has honored 127 defenders of Ukraine with state awards, including 68 of them posthumously.
The National Prosecutor's Office of Poland has joined the investigation into the crimes of genocide committed by Russia in Ukraine.
The head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, says Ukraine will investigate all Russian war crimes and identify everyone who has committed them.
At a Kremlin meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Ukraine a "priority" for the Russian army and stated the need to increase combat readiness of the Pacific and other naval fleets.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russian forces are installing video surveillance cameras along the railway to detect sabotage efforts by local guerillas.
In Great Britain, Norwegian instructors help Ukrainian recruits learn fire control basics in a defensive battle.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held another meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are participating in the largest national exercise of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Sweden, "Aurora-23," in over 25 years, which began on April 17, the General Staff said in a statement, Ukrinform reports.
Some 86% of Ukrainian soldiers who made it home from Russian captivity reported being subjected to physical torture by Russian forces.
Russia holds at least 20,000 Ukrainian civilians hostage.
Over the past nine months, the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has received dozens of videos showing the public execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian invaders.
According to intelligence data, Russian troops withdrew two airborne military units from Marinka section in Donetsk region for recovery.
Over the past week, 230 Ukrainians were returned from Russian captivity.
The Russian army will save missiles, but Ukrainians should not relax. Russia leaves missile attacks as one of the priority ways to give itself an artificial advantage when there is no success on the battlefield.
In Luhansk region, Ukrainian artillery units destroyed a Russian anti-aircraft missile system.
Slovakia has completed the handover to Ukraine of all 13 MiG-29 fighter jets the government vowed to deliver.
A school in Mykolaiv region caught fire as a result of Russian shelling.
A total of 470 children have been killed and over 948 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
Russian troops fired on 16 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region yesterday, and 52 reports of damaged facilities were recorded.
On April 16, 2023, Russian troops were shelling the Kharkiv region’s border areas and frontline settlements in the Kharkiv, Kupiansk, Chuhuiv and Izium districts.