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Russians hit Sloviansk and Kramatorsk with missiles, people under rubble
Russians struck at Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, and there are probably people under the rubble.
17 February 2024
Russians struck at Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, and there are probably people under the rubble.
The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade has withdrawn to prepared positions on the outskirts of Avdiivka and leveled the front line.
Russian troops shelled Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region for the second time in a day, and there may be people under the rubble of the administrative building of the utility company.
Head of the Presidential Office Andrii Yermak met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and discussed security in the Black Sea.
Soldiers of the Kherson Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade destroyed two Russian reconnaissance drones.
On February 17, Russian troops fired on the village of Bilozerka in the Kherson region, injuring three people.
During the day, 63 combat engagements took place on the frontline between the Defense Forces and Russian invaders, most of them in the Marinka and Avdiivka directions.
On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky discussed Ukraine’s defense needs with President-elect of Finland Alexander Stubb.
Russians dropped guided and high-explosive bombs on residential areas of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. The number of injured rose to five, three women and two men.
In the Sumy region, one man was killed and another was wounded in an enemy mortar shelling attack on the Khotin community.
The Ukrainian military destroyed a missile over the Kryvyi Rih district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, a woman was rescued from the rubble of a two-story building and taken to hospital. The search for two more people are currently ongoing.
In Munich, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte discussed defense support for Ukraine and the transfer of F-16 fighter jets.
The United States will transfer funds obtained from a Russian smuggling ring to Estonia for the benefit of Ukraine.
At a meeting with his G7 counterparts in Munich, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba called for a swift decision to confiscate frozen Russian assets and use them for Ukraine's recovery and defense.
If presumptive U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump comes to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to go with him to the front.
The Russian army shelled Kherson, killing a man and injuring two other residents.
No country in Europe is ready for a war with Russia, either informationally or psychologically.
Ukrainian Air Force units destroyed two Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers and one Su-35 fighter on the eastern front early on February 17.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, border guards used anti-drone guns to neutralize nine enemy FPV drones.
At night, a large fire broke out in the Russian arms factory in Izhevsk, a city that was used for the production of UAVs past year.
Russia has attacked Avdiivka with all its might since October last year and only lost tens of thousands of its soldiers there.
The enemy hit an infrastructure facility on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region, the invaders are adding land to their register.
The Marhanets community, Dnipropetrovsk region, was attacked by an enemy UAV, which hit a car carrying civilians. Currently, two people are in serious condition.
The drone coalition was officially launched within the framework of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
Russian forces would likely struggle to advance west of Avdiivka towards secondary prepared positions to which Ukrainian forces are withdrawing.
Over the past day, the Russian military attacked 15 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region a total of 408 times.
The Russian army shelled the Kherson region 15 times over the past day, wounding two people.