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17 August 2023
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny discussed the urgent need of the Ukrainian army for ammunition and weapons with Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.
In Tavria direction, the Russian army lost 240 soldiers killed, wounded, and captured (killed – 88, wounded – 145, captured – 7) over the past day.
During the day, 24 combat engagements took place between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops.
During the day, the enemy shelled Nikopol and Marhanets community in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Air defense forces destroyed two Russian drones in Mykolayiv region on Thursday, August 17.
The Azov Brigade released a video of the destruction of an infantry fighting vehicle of Russian invaders in Zaporizhzhia direction.
NATO has not detected any changes in the deployment of Russia's nuclear forces, and therefore the Alliance sees no reason to reconsider its own corresponding setup.
Revision of public transport fares in the capital is possible only with the post-war development of all sectors of the city's life, including public transport.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has honored 130 soldiers with state awards, including 71 posthumously.
On August 16, National Guard aerial reconnaissance aircraft detected and destroyed a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group that was trying to cross the Kupiansk direction.
NATO will support Ukraine until it wins the war started by Russia.
The Executive Committee of the Chernihiv City Council has granted urban planning conditions for the dismantling of the destroyed building of the Ukraina Hotel and its reconstruction on a leased land plot.
Three law enforcement officers who were injured in an air strike on Orikhiv on August 12 remain in hospital.
Germany has provided Ukraine with a new military aid package that, among other things, includes launchers for the IRIS-T SLS air defense system.
The Ukrainian National Guard's Azov Brigade has returned to the front line and started carrying out combat missions in the Serebriansky Forestry area near Kreminna, Luhansk region.
There are still 1,516 children in eight communities in the Zaporizhzhia region where hostilities are taking place.
The Russian military shelled the village of Zaoskillia, in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing a 61-year-old woman and injuring a 60-year-old woman.
In the United Kingdom, members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are practicing assault exercises under the guidance of Canadian instructors.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has predicted that Ukraine will receive American F-16 fighter jets once the training of Ukrainian pilots is completed.
Ukrainian Ground Forces Commander, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi has released footage showing Ukrainian fighters from the 22nd Mechanized Brigade using a 2S-1 Gvozdika self-propelled gun to destroy a Russian stronghold in the Bakhmut sector.
The Ukrainians have donated UAH 235 million for 10,000 FPV drones as part of the Operation Unity fundraising project.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held a conference call to discuss the supply of equipment and ammunition for Ukraine's defense forces.
Russian invaders killed 502 children in Ukraine and injured another 1,099 children.
Over the past day, August 16, the community of Lyman in the Donetsk region suffered eight attacks by the invader. There are injured in the region.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the laws, adopted by the parliament on July 27, on the extension of martial law and general mobilization for another 90 days - until November 15, 2023.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, a total of 16,255 children have been found in Ukraine.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine killed and wounded 150 occupiers in the Lyman-Kupiansk direction and 122 Russian soldiers in the Bakhmut direction.
Five Russia’s warships remain on combat duty in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, with no missile carriers among them.
Soldiers of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade shot down an enemy Ka-52 helicopter in Zaporizhzhia direction near Robotyne.
In the temporarily occupied Lysychansk, Russian invaders refuse to provide compensation for damaged housing.