17 May 2023 in Russo-Ukrainian war
- The White House does not plan to request additional funding for Ukraine. The necessary resources are available
- The US House of Representatives supported a resolution on a special tribunal for Russia
- The Russians are intensifying terrorist attacks on the population of Kharkiv region
- A drone crashed and exploded in the Kaluga region of the Russian Federation
- Belarus assures that no nuclear weapons were brought to them from the Russian Federation
- In the morning, the enemy targeted a hospital in Beryslav and a high-rise building in Kherson
- Hungary declared that the EU and NATO became a de facto party to the war in Ukraine
- Russia has frozen the accounts of diplomatic missions of Finland
- Poland cannot provide Ukraine with F-16 fighters, but is ready to transfer MiG-29
- Scholz has no intention of participating in the "coalition of fighter jets" for Ukraine
- Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia and Turkey refused the agreement on the registry of crimes of the Russian Federation
- There are already more Russian military personnel than personnel at the ZNPP
- The EU wants to make it easier for European companies to exit the Russian market by easing sanctions
- The Ukrainians won another half a kilometer in the direction of Bakhmut
- Britain offers help to countries that are ready to supply fighter jets to Ukraine
- The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands on the "coalition of fighter jets": there is no progress yet
- Erdogan: "grain agreement" extended for two months
- CNN: Patriot air defense system near Kyiv has "minor" damage, US inspectors examined it
- The Council of Europe summit supported Zelenskyi's "peace formula".
- The special envoy of China, who was the ambassador to the Russian Federation, visited Ukraine
- Bakhmut and Maryinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities
- In Russia, three developers of hypersonic missiles were arrested for "treason".
- India imported a record amount of Russian oil in April
- The EU believes that they will overcome Hungary's veto on aid to Ukraine and new sanctions
- The French Senate recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
- Russia announced that it destroyed 5 Patriot installations at once with a missile strike
- Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary: Ukraine threatens Hungary's sovereignty because Zelensky wanted to blow up the Druzhba pipeline
- The US confirms that the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine is in working order
- The President of Austria criticized the government: it did not want to immediately join the demining of Ukraine
- Borrell proposes to significantly increase the EU fund from which Ukraine is helped with weapons
- Russians attack Bakhmut, 36 combat clashes took place in 4 directions
- The Ukrainians destroyed 510 occupiers and 32 enemy artillery systems in a day
- State Department: The US will provide Ukraine with new combat systems, taking into account the situation
- ISW: The Russians are losing the initiative in the Bakhmut area
- The armed forces in the direction of Bakhmut advanced 150-1700 m during the day