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17 August 2025
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 65 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders. In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, defenders are actively working to thwart enemy plans, and in some locations, they have already succeded.
Today in Brussels, during negotiations in several formats, it will be determined what will be discussed tomorrow in Washington.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia shows no signs that the trilateral meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, the U.S., and Russia will take place.
A virtual meeting of NATO and EU leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has begun as part of the Coalition of the Willing meeting.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže held a telephone conversation on Sunday morning to coordinate steps ahead of important meetings.
On the night of August 17, the Defense Forces fired on a Russian army convoy on the Rylsk-Khomutovka highway in the Kursk region of Russia, seriously wounding Lieutenant General Abachev, Deputy Commander of the Sever military group.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants a quick agreement to end the war in Ukraine and may therefore try to increase pressure on Kyiv and Europe, which must not allow a wedge to be driven between themselves and the United States.
On August 16, Russian invaders struck rescuers in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, with drones, damaging a fire truck.
Infrastructure at the Liski railway station in Russia's Voronezh region, used to supply ammunition to the front, was struck in an operation by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), a source in the intelligence agency told Ukrinform.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington on Monday together with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders, according to government spokesman Stefan Kornelius.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has said that a comprehensive government action plan will be presented on Monday, Aug. 18.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said she will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels today before flying with him and other European leaders to the United States.
In Sviatohorivka and Dobropillia, Donetsk region, Russian shelling damaged private houses and apartment buildings, leaving two civilians dead.
The Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv has come under attack by Russian forces.
On August 16, in temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, an operation by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) destroyed an ammunition depot and a group of Russian occupiers that had been redeployed to the Zaporizhzhia front.
On August 16, in temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, an operation by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) destroyed an ammunition depot and a group of Russian occupiers that had been redeployed to the Zaporizhzhia front.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have achieved gains in several sectors. In the Donetsk region, the settlements of Hruzke, Rubizhne, Novovodiane, Petrivka, Vesele, and Zolotyi Kolodiaz have been cleared of Russian occupiers.
A resident of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region was wounded as a result of Russian artillery shelling.
Siversk and Gürem sniper rifles purchased by a Ukrainian family in Turkey were sent to the front. The family spent a year collecting funds to support Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha held a telephone conversation with Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen on Sunday morning and coordinated positions ahead of the meeting of the leaders of the Coalition of the Willing.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a new package of sanctions against the Russian military-industrial complex, targeting manufacturers of drones using artificial intelligence.
The main task of unmanned ground vehicles on the frontline is currently the performance of logistical tasks.
An agent of the ATESH resistance movement disabled a relay cabinet on the section of the railway from the Rostov region of the Russian Federation to the Luhansk region, which Russian troops use to supply equipment and ammunition.
On the night of August 17, Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed or neutralized 40 Russian drones out of 60 launched.
Over the past 24 hours, 148 clashes between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline, 51 of them in the Pokrovsk sector. The enemy also intensified its activities in the Lyman and Novopavlivka sectors.
The Russian army killed five residents of the Donetsk region yesterday.
Russian forces shelled critical and social infrastructure across the Kherson region over the past day, injuring two civilians.
Russian troops carried out a total of 505 strikes on 10 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region over the past 24 hours.
During the night of Sunday, August 17, drones targeted the Liski railway station in Russia’s Voronezh region.
Russian forces launched attacks on the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region.