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2025-03-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: March 17, 2025
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:50 Ukraine has successfully tested its own long-range drone, which can cover 3,000 km. This was announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening address.
22:27 In the Dnipro district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of an attack by enemy drones, an infrastructure facility was damaged and a fire broke out. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Serhiy Lysak, on the evening of March 17.
20:50 The Security Service has banned entry into Ukraine for three years to the head of the pro-Russian Romanian party SOS Romania, Diana Jovanovic Sosoache, who supports the Russian war against Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the department.
18:05 Germany's 3 billion euro military aid package for Ukraine, which may soon be unblocked, provides for weapons supplies in both the short and long term. Federal Government spokesman Steffen Gebestreit gave details at a briefing, Ukrinform reports.
17.09 South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul called for cooperation on issues related to North Korean prisoners of war during a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiha on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea reported.
16:55 Since the beginning of the current day, 98 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported details on the progress of the battles in an operational report as of 16:00.
16:29 The European Union is discussing providing military aid to Ukraine worth 40 billion euros. This initiative has broad support. This statement was made by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas at a briefing in Brussels.
15.51 Up to 1.6 million Ukrainian children remain under the control of the aggressor country Russia – they are either deported or forced to live under occupation. This was reported by the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak.
15:06 President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the new Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Gnatov. They discussed the situation at the front and in interaction with partners on security guarantees for Ukraine.
14:30 Germany has transferred another package of military aid to Ukraine, which includes armored vehicles, drones and numerous ammunition. The full list was published by the German government.
13.56 Information that the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Kirill Ignatenko" allegedly "accused Elon Musk and the SpaceX company" of the so-called "failure of the Kursk operation" is a fake of Russian propaganda. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council.
13.56 The Security Service detained a 21-year-old FSB agent in the Donetsk region, who was collecting intelligence data to prepare new attacks by the Russian Federation in the hottest direction of the front - Pokrovsky.
The man was recruited by the FSB through Telegram channels. After receiving enemy tasks, he began spying on the headquarters and strongholds of the Ukrainian troops.
Also, on assignment from the Russians, he tried to reconnoiter the coordinates of the combat positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery, which is keeping under fire control the assault groups of the occupiers trying to break through to Pokrovsk.
13:49 Three children were wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the city of Pokrovsk. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk OVA Vadim Filashkin. According to him, these children had previously been evacuated to a safer region, but their parents decided to return to Pokrovsk.
13:25 A reconnaissance company of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade Magura, using Fly Eye 3.0 drones, discovered an enemy garage where Russian marines of the 155th Brigade were welding additional armor for their armored vehicles.
Over time, a HIMARS multiple launch rocket system was fired at the enemy target. As a result of the shelling, not only the workshop but also the personnel were destroyed.
13:24 A telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin may indeed take place on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said . However, he declined to comment on Trump's words about plans to discuss with Putin issues regarding territories and control over nuclear power plants.
13:19 On the evening of March 14, Russian troops launched a ballistic strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih, which damaged a judicial institution. This was reported by the press service of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine on Monday, March 17.
As noted, as a result of the shock waves, the windows and the facade of the justice system building were damaged.
13:09 In Zaporizhia, law enforcement officers detained a man who fired a pistol and threw a grenade at a patrol of police officers and TCC workers. This was reported by the regional department of the National Police. The offender was a 44-year-old resident of Zaporizhia.
12:55 Since the start of the work of the recruitment centers of the Ukrainian army, 45,657 citizens have contacted them, of which 9,379 candidates have begun the process of registration for military service. The most active are residents of Kiev and the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Lviv and Zaporizhia regions.
12:49 Russian troops have become more active in the Kupyansk and Limansk directions, in particular, they are trying to transfer equipment across the Oskol River. This was reported on the air of the telethon by Viktor Tregubov, a representative of the operational-strategic group of troops Khortytsia.
11:22 As a result of the attack by Russian drones, energy facilities in several regions were damaged. This was reported by Ukrenergo. There are consumers without power. Repair crews of the regional power company are already working to eliminate the consequences of the shelling.
11.03 Ukraine will be the determining party in monitoring the observance of the ceasefire regime, since everything is happening on its territory. But international forces may also be involved. This was stated by Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga in an interview for RBC-Ukraine .
10:15 The Security Service detained a 21-year-old agent of the Russian special services who was preparing coordinates for a new series of Russian air strikes on Odessa. Among the enemy's potential targets were reserve command posts and administrative buildings of the Defense Forces. In order to penetrate the Ukrainian air defense during the attack, the agent tried to identify and transmit to the occupiers the coordinates of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' radar stations.
09:30 The United States is withdrawing from a multinational group investigating Russia's crimes during its invasion of Ukraine, including the actions of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, The New York Times reports.
The case in point is the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), created to hold Russia's leadership, as well as its allies in Belarus, North Korea, and Iran, accountable for aggression that violates the sovereignty of another country and is not undertaken in self-defense.
09:10 At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with 174 Shahed-type attack UAVs and drone imitators of various types. Air defense forces destroyed 90 drones. Another 70 Russian drone imitators were lost without negative consequences.
As a result of the Russian attack, Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kiev regions suffered.
08:56 At night, 37 Russian drones were recorded on the approaches to Kiev, 25 of them were destroyed by air defense systems, the rest were lost or left the airspace. There is no information about damage and casualties as a result of falling debris.
08:44 In the Kremenchuk district of the Poltava region, emergency power outages were introduced after the Russian drone attack. 1,035 households and 41 legal consumers were left without power.
08:20 Over the past 24 hours, 112 combat clashes took place on the front. Missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit six areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as an artillery weapon of the Russian invaders.
07:55 In the temporarily captured areas of the Luhansk region, the occupation administration is distributing land to the Russian military. This was reported by the Center for National Resistance.
"The occupiers continue to plunder Ukrainian land - in the Luhansk region there is a new wave of "distribution" of seized land to the "SVO" terrorists and the families of the deceased occupiers," the report says.
07:20 As of March 17, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were approximately 895,450 people (+1,210 in the last 24 hours).
04:01 A civilian was killed and two more people were wounded by Russian shelling in the Sumy region. In total, on Sunday, March 16, Russian troops carried out 114 shellings of border territories and settlements in the region.
01:20 A potential peace agreement could provide for an exchange of territories for security guarantees for Ukraine and a determination of its future status, said US National Security Advisor Michael Walz. According to him, the agreement could consider access to Ukraine's rare earth resources, maintaining an American presence, possible participation of European troops, as well as Kiev's refusal to join NATO. At the same time, he suggested that regions with a large share of ethnic Russians, in particular Donbass, could come under Russian control.
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