The war has entered its 783rd day and the main developments are as follows:
This is the situation as of Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
finding
- Ukraine's air force announced that its air defense systems had destroyed nine Russian drones launched over several regions in the east and south.
- The Institute for War Studies, a US-based think tank, said that due to delays in US military aid to Ukraine, Russian forces on the front lines are “starting to emerge from positional warfare and regain maneuver onto the battlefield”. The think tank warned that the Ukrainian military would not be able to maintain its current front “without the prompt resumption of US support, especially air defense and artillery.”
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a new mobilization bill to address the country's severe troop shortage. The new law includes measures to stiffen penalties for draft evaders and encourage conscription, but there are no plans to demobilize soldiers who have served long on the front lines. The changes will take effect after one month.
- Dmytro Rubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of Ukraine, said that approximately 37,000 people, including military personnel, have gone missing since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. He warned that the figure could be “much higher”. Rubinets said Ukraine and the Red Cross had identified about 1,700 people “illegally detained” by Russia.
politics and diplomacy
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who visited Beijing, told Chinese President Xi Jinping, “We want to put pressure on Russia, [President Vladimir] President Putin finally called off the crazy operation, withdrew the troops, and ended this terrible war. ” However, Mr. Xi did not support a Ukraine-led peace summit to be held in June, saying it must be recognized by both sides and include equal participation.
- A Ukrainian man who claims to have been detained and tortured at work by Russian occupation forces has filed a war crimes lawsuit in Argentina, Reuters reports. In the filing, the man accuses one named person (two identified by call sign or military insignia) and an anonymous person of electrocution and false imprisonment as a form of torture in mid-to-late 2022. accusing a person. Russia denies war crimes. In Ukraine.
- Russia's FSB Security Service has announced that it has detained a man suspected of attempting to kill a former member of Ukraine's Main Security Service (SBU) who is living in exile in Moscow. The FSB alleges that Kiev ordered the man to kill former SBU lieutenant Vasily Prozorov, who told Russian news agencies that he had been passing classified information to Russian intelligence since 2014. Told. Prozorov's car exploded in an alleged car bombing in Moscow last week. .
weapons
- President Zelensky said on April 11 that Ukraine had “run out” of defensive weapons to protect the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant (TTPP), one of the largest electricity suppliers to the Kiev region, and that it was destroyed by Russian missiles on April 11. He said he forgave him.
- Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said 20 countries had pledged enough to buy 500,000 shells for Ukraine under a Czech-led international fundraising campaign to buy ammunition for Ukraine's military. Ta.