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A Russian artillery assault towards Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on April 17 killed two males aged 56 and 61 and injured 5 folks, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.
4 of the injured victims have been hospitalized and are in critical situation, Lysak mentioned.
The assault prompted a fireplace to interrupt out within the metropolis. In line with the governor, a store, a restaurant, a number of homes, outbuildings, vehicles, and a bus cease had been broken.
The aftermath of a Russian artillery strike towards Nikopol, Ukraine, on April 17, 2025. (Ignatius Ivlev-Yorke for the Kyiv Impartial)The aftermath of a Russian artillery strike towards Nikopol, Ukraine, on April 17, 2025. (Ignatius Ivlev-Yorke for the Kyiv Impartial)
Nikopol, positioned on the banks of the destroyed Kakhovka Reservoir, simply throughout from Russian-occupied Enerhodar and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant, is a daily goal of artillery and drone strikes.
A minimum of 5 folks had been killed and nearly 70 injured in Russian assaults towards Ukraine over the previous day, regional authorities reported within the morning of April 17.
This included three folks killed, together with a baby, and 30 injured in an assault towards the regional heart of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipro, on April 16.
The widespread assaults come amid continued Russian rejection of a full ceasefire settlement, beforehand backed by Kyiv, and comply with latest intensification of strikes on civilian areas throughout Ukraine.
A delegation from Ukraine in Paris held talks with members of the "coalition of the prepared": the problem of a contingent was raised.
Negotiations on a ceasefire and safety ensures for Ukraine befell in Paris. The involvement of a multinational contingent and the event of a safety structure have been mentioned.
Drones attacked positions of Russia's 112th Missile Brigade in Shuya in Ivanovo Oblast for the second day in a row, unbiased Russian information outlet Astra reported on April 17.
The brigade, which Ukraine's intelligence mentioned was behind the Palm Sunday strike towards Sumy on April 13 that killed 35 individuals, was additionally attacked by drones on April 16.
Shuya's residents reported explosions within the early morning hours of April 17, with native authorities issuing a drone alert. Footage shared on-line exhibits explosions and a fireplace within the space.
Astra mentioned it had geolocated one of many movies of the strike, putting it 180 meters from the brigade's garrison. The extent of injury or doable casualties will not be instantly clear.
112th Guards Missile Brigade attacked once more in Shuya, Ivanovo area. A fireplace breaks out, eyewitness footage exhibits. ASTRA geolocated one of many obtainable movies. The placement is instantly behind the navy unit—roughly 180 meters from the garrison of the 112th Guards… pic.twitter.com/nay73ETde6
— ASTRA (@ASTRA_PRESS) April 17, 2025
Russia's Protection Ministry claimed its forces downed 71 Ukrainian drones in a single day – virtually 50 of them in Kursk Oblast and none over Ivanovo Oblast.
Ukraine has not commented on the claims, which couldn’t be independently verified.
Shuya is located on the Teza River, roughly 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the regional heart, Ivanovo. It lies about 700 kilometers (435 miles) northeast of the Ukrainian border.
Earlier, Ukraine's Basic Workers confirmed on April 15 that its forces had focused and struck the bottom of the 448th Missile Brigade in Kursk Oblast, one other unit linked to the assault on Sumy.
Ukraine seeks U.S. assist in regaining management of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant (NPP) and launching joint vitality tasks, Power Minister Herman Halushchenko mentioned on April 16, Ukrainian state information company Ukrinform reported.
"We’ve a standard curiosity with the USA to convey the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant underneath Ukrainian management and begin the operation of this nuclear energy plant," Halushchenko mentioned at an Atlantic Council dialogue.
"It might convey new alternatives for cooperation between us, for instance, in terms of electrical energy exports."
The plant, the biggest in Europe and among the many prime 10 worldwide, has been underneath Russian occupation because the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Halushchenko urged that restarting the plant may play a key function in Ukraine's long-term reconstruction.
"We’ll want extra electrical energy for any undertaking which may be applied in Ukraine, along with the U.S. We want extra electrical energy to rebuild the nation on a big scale," he added.
The minister additionally emphasised that permitting Russia to take care of management of the plant can be a "complete catastrophe" for international nuclear security.
"If we permit the Russians to maintain management of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant, even with out resuming its operations, it is going to be a complete catastrophe for all the things the world has achieved within the improvement of peaceable atom."
Halushchenko additionally raised alarm over repeated Russian assaults on Ukraine's vitality infrastructure and their implications for nuclear safety.
Since August 2024, over 150 incidents have been recorded through which Russian missiles or drones flew close to or over Ukraine's nuclear websites, together with Zaporizhzhia.
Although a narrower settlement was reachedon March 25 to droop assaults on vitality infrastructure, that truce has largely failed to carry. Each Ukraine and Russia accuse one another of violating the vitality ceasefire.
U.S. President Donald Trump floated the concept of joint U.S.-Ukrainian possession of Ukraine's nuclear vegetation throughout a March 19 name with President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling it the very best safety for Ukraine's important infrastructure.
Russia has rejected any risk of transferring management or coming into into joint operations. On March 25, the Russian Overseas Ministry claimed that the plant is "a Russian facility" and dominated out its return to Ukraine or cooperation with third events.
Russia continues to assert possession of the plant primarily based on its unlawful annexation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in 2022, although Ukraine retains management over the regional heart and enormous components of the territory.
The annexation adopted staged referendums broadly condemned by the worldwide neighborhood.
Russia attacked Ukraine with 2 ballistic "Iskanders", 3 extra missiles and 75 UAVs: 25 drones downed
In a single day on April 17, the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine with missiles and 75 drones. 25 drones had been shot down, 30 decoys had been misplaced. Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk areas had been affected.
Russia has misplaced 937,440 troops in Ukraine for the reason that starting of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the Basic Workers of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on April 17.
The quantity contains 1,230 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the previous day.
In accordance with the report, Russia has additionally misplaced 10,654 tanks, 22,217 armored combating automobiles, 44,642 automobiles and gasoline tanks, 26,442 artillery techniques, 1,366 a number of launch rocket techniques, 1,135 air protection techniques, 370 airplanes, 335 helicopters, 32,925 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.
Greater than a 3rd of the battles are in two instructions: map from the Common Employees
Over the previous day, 125 fight clashes passed off on the entrance, a 3rd of which had been within the Pokrovsky and Lyman instructions. The enemy launched 94 air strikes and concerned 2,764 kamikaze drones.
Russian impartial media outlet, Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBCRussian service, has confirmed the identities of 101,833 Russian army personnel killed in Ukraine.
Mediazona's newest report covers the interval of February 24, 2022 to April 7, 2025. Because it was final up to date on the finish of March, 1,882 extra Russian army personnel have been killed.
The listing of deceased Russian army personnel is compiled from verified, publicly obtainable sources, together with social media posts, native information stories, and official bulletins from regional authorities.
Nevertheless, because the Russian authorities doesn’t publicly disclose casualty info, journalists be aware that the entire variety of casualties is probably going increased than reported.
Mediazona estimates that no less than 165,000 army personnel have been killed within the invasion.
Of the entire confirmed casualties, no less than 4,897 officers have been killed. Greater than 24,800 volunteers have been killed as nicely, accounting for twenty-four.3% of the entire Russian losses.
The media outlet publicly releasedthe complete listing of named casualties for the primary time in February, commemorating the third-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
As of April 16, Russia has misplaced a complete of 936,210 troops for the reason that full-scale invasion started, Ukraine's Common Employees reported. The estimate, which is broadly in-line with estimates made by Western intelligence businesses, possible consists of these killed, captured, wounded, and lacking.
The Kyiv IndependentVolodymyr Ivanyshyn
