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17 March 2026
Six Ukrainian nationals have been detained in India on suspicion of unauthorized presence in a border state and a possible illegal crossing into Myanmar. Ukraine is demanding consular access to them and denies what it calls unfounded accusations in the media.
The European Union has offered Ukraine support and funding to accelerate repair work on the Druzhba oil pipeline, despite Hungary’s continued blocking of an EU loan to Ukraine and a package of sanctions against Russia, linking these issues to the resumption of oil transit.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that there are prospects for a peaceful settlement in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
A crashed drone was discovered in southern Moldova, near the Ukrainian border.
On March 17, Russian Ambassador to Moldova Oleg Ozerov was summoned to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the contamination of the Dniester River, which occurred after Russian forces attacked the Novodnistrovsk Hydroelectric Power Plant in Ukraine.
In the city of Staraya Russa in Russia’s Novgorod region, drones attacked the JSC 123 ARZ aircraft repair plant.
The United Kingdom and Ukraine intend to agree on a new military partnership at today’s leaders’ meeting and announce the creation of the AI Centre of Excellence in Kyiv to boost global defence capabilities.
As of March 17, power outages have affected users in the Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions due to Russian attacks.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army launched strikes on Kharkiv and 16 other settlements in the region, injuring ten people.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army attacked approximately 31 settlements in the Sumy region with drones, damaging energy infrastructure and railroad tracks; two people were killed, and nine were wounded.
In Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region, a nighttime drone strike damaged homes, stores, and power lines; nearly 200 households are without power, and the gas supply is disrupted.
Ukraine is gradually shifting the war onto Russian territory, and air raid alert sirens are already blaring across the Russian Federation. Recently, more than 250 aerial targets were detected in the Moscow area, all aimed at the aggressor country’s military infrastructure.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army attacked 39 settlements in the Kherson region using drones, aircraft, and artillery, resulting in one death and nine injuries, including a child.
Over the past 24 hours, on March 16, Russian invaders killed five residents of the Donetsk region and wounded six others.
The Russian troops launched strikes on the southern part of the Odesa region overnight, causing damage to energy, industrial, and port infrastructure.
The War is Entering a New Phase
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces and Russian troops engaged in 171 combat clashes, with the heaviest enemy pressure recorded on the Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, and Huliaipole axes.
A Russian FPV drone struck a bus carrying civilian workers in the Kutsurub community, Mykolaiv region, injuring two people.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 154 out of 178 drones launched by Russian troops since the evening of Monday, with impacts recorded at 12 locations.
Russia lost another 930 troops in its war against Ukraine over the past 24 hours, bringing its total personnel losses to about 1,280,860 since the start of the full-scale invasion.
The number of people injured in a morning attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to eight.
The United Kingdom and Canada will maintain pressure on Russia to end its war against Ukraine.
Seven people have been injured in a Russian air attack on Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine does not see threats from representatives of Iran's regime to strike its territory in response to Kyiv's support for Middle Eastern countries as anything new or noteworthy.
Russian commanders are ordering their subordinates not to evacuate the bodies of fallen soldiers from the battlefield, but instead to take only their heads and documents for identification purposes.
Russia helped Iran improve its strike drones, and now Israel, Gulf countries, as well as U.S. troops in the Middle East face the same threat Ukraine encountered several years ago.
On Tuesday, March 17, power restriction schedules will be in effect for industrial users in all regions of Ukraine.
Two more children have been returned from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region to territory controlled by Ukraine.
The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has published an interactive 3D model and data on 79 manufacturers of key systems and components of the Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber on the War&Sanctions portal.
Military counterintelligence officers and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, have exposed an agent of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).