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17 April 2023
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.
On April 16, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 46 times, having fired 170 projectiles.
In the de-occupied territory of the Kherson region, 300 mobile communication stations are operating, and more than 160 specialists are working to restore electricity supply.
In Sweden, on April 17, the Aurora 23 exercise kicks off, the country’s largest over the last more quarter of a century.
Since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have eliminated 182,660 Russian invaders, including 590 over the past day.
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Air Force carried out five sorties targeting Russian manpower clusters and an anti-aircraft missile system.
The Russian command is reinforcing the Wagner Group units deployed near Bakhmut with modern assets in order to help the force capture the Ukrainian town in Donetsk region.
Overnight Monday, April 17, the sounds of explosions rang out in Belgorod, Russia. Local Telegram channels report problems with electricity supply in the city, while regional authorities have confirmed "fires at civilian facilities."
Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov says he plans to resign once Ukraine wins the war with Russia.
Ukraine will use existing and newly-arriving weapons when liberating temporarily occupied territories so the expulsion of Russian invaders is just a matter of time.
The Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in cooperation with the President’s Office have already returned to Ukraine 2,235 prisoners of war since the full-scale invasion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party intends to recruit Russian military personnel who have served in Ukraine as candidates for elections in 2023 and 2024, likely in an effort to establish itself as the definitive pro-war party in Russia.
A "desert" emerged on the site of 29 apartment blocks in the Primorsky district of Mariupol.
Russian invaders are preparing to kidnap children from the temporarily occupied city of Enerhodar in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.
16 April 2023
Russian troops attacked the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, twice on Sunday, April 16, injuring two people.
Russian troops shelled the border area of the Sumy region three times on Sunday, April 16, firing 16 shells from mortars and artillery.
The rescue operation at the site of a 5-storey apartment block, which was hit by a Russian missile on April 14, 2023, has ended. Fifteen people were pulled from under the rubble, and 10 of them died.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled over 45 Russian attacks in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions.