“Please note information regarding the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on October 17, 2025.”, — write: football.ua
🔸 Zelensky arrived in Washington for a meeting with Donald Trump. Before the negotiations, they held a joint press conference.
🔸 Trump called on Russia and Ukraine to “stop where they are”: “Let both declare victory, and then history will decide!” he said. Trump added that the military should “go home to their families in peace.” Zelensky agreed that “it is important to stop where we are and then speak”
🔸 The President of Ukraine confirmed that he discussed the transfer of Tomahawk missiles with Trump, but refused to comment on the details: “The US does not want escalation. And we will not touch this topic.”
🔸 In Hungary, they said that they will “respectfully receive” Putin during his upcoming visit to the country, despite the arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.
🔸 In Poland, the court refused Germany to extradite a Ukrainian suspected of undermining the Nord Streams.
🔸 In Ternopil, the court took into custody six military men who are suspected of kidnapping and beating people. Bail is not provided.
🔸 Putin gave Trump a “historic lecture” at the summit in Alaska. The US president even threatened to leave the meeting, he writes Financial Times.
Today, Russian troops carried out 78 airstrikes and dropped 154 guided air bombs. In addition, 3,292 kamikaze drones were involved in the strikes and 3,834 attacks were carried out on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian soldiers repelled two assaults by the occupiers. In addition, the enemy carried out six airstrikes, dropped 14 guided aerial bombs, and also carried out 147 attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, two of which were from rocket salvo systems.
In the Yuzhno-Slobozhansk direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units near Vovchansk and in the direction of the settlements of Bologhivka, Kutkivka, Obukhivka, and Kolodyazne 15 times. Two combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Kupiansk direction, the aggressor carried out offensive actions in the areas of Pishchane, Petropavlivka and in the Kupiansk direction. Six out of seven attacks were repelled by Ukrainian soldiers, another combat clash is ongoing.
In the Lyman direction, Russian invaders attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 12 times near the settlements of Grekivka, Karpivka, Torske, Shandrygolovo and Drobysheve, as well as in the direction of the settlement of Korovii Yar. Two combat clashes are still ongoing.
Seven enemy assaults were repulsed by Ukrainian defenders in the Slavyansk direction — the occupiers tried to advance in the areas of Pereizny, Hryhorivka, Dronivka, and Yampol.
Today, the enemy did not conduct offensive actions in the Kramatorsk direction.
In the direction of Kostyantynivka, the Russians tried 11 times to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units in the areas of Torskyi, Shcherbynivka, Rusyny Yar and in the direction of the settlements of Kostyantynivka and Berestok.
In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 33 times. The enemy attacked in the areas of Shakhove, Nikanorivka, Rodynske, Chervyn Liman, Myrnograd, Novoeconomichne, Lysivka, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Udachne, Filia and in the direction of Novopavlivka and Pokrovsk. In one location, the fighting has not subsided until now.
According to preliminary data, 56 occupiers were neutralized in this direction today, 41 of them irreversibly. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed one car and 19 unmanned aerial vehicles; the control point of unmanned aerial vehicles was damaged.
In the Oleksandrivsk direction, the enemy tried 12 times to break through the defenses of our defenders in the direction of Orestopol and the areas of the settlements of Oleksandrograd, Sichneve, Novomykolaivka, Novogrigorivka, Vesele, Malynivka. One combat encounter is ongoing.
Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has not carried out offensive actions in the Gulyaipil direction.
In the Orihiv direction, with the support of aviation, the enemy advanced three times in the areas of Kamianske and Stepove settlements.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy once tried in vain to approach the positions of our defenders in the direction of the Antoniv bridge.
Today, it is worth noting the soldiers of the 34th separate coastal defense brigade, who effectively destroy the enemy, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment.
There were no significant changes in the rest of the directions.
Zelensky’s communication with the media following the meeting with Trump:
We believe in the Armed Forces and help them! Together we are a force! Glory to Ukraine!