The EU is considering approving a €5 billion fund to help Ukraine and using the excess profits from frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine's defense, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said.
Russia has organized pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, trying to demonstrate legitimacy by engaging foreign observers, but these "elections" are legally null and void and violate Ukrainian and international law, and Ukrainians in the occupied territories live under the threat of violence.
President Zelenskyy held the meeting to discuss reports from the front, ammunition supplies, defense contracts, protection of critical infrastructure, and efforts to build defense borders.
The number of new patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Ukraine's electronic healthcare system almost quadrupled from 2021 to 2023, with 3,292 new cases recorded in the first two months of 2024 alone.
Russia has not abandoned its massive missile strikes, Natalia Gumenyuk points out.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has updated the recommendations for vaccination with the bivalent omicron-specific vaccine against COVID-19.
On March 17, 15 drones were involved in a drone attack on an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Russia.
President Zelenskyy congratulated Prabowo Subianto on his election as President of Indonesia, invited Indonesia to participate in the upcoming peace summit, and expressed hope for continued fruitful bilateral relations.
Russian troops attacked Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovs'k region, causing a fire at a gas station, which was extinguished by rescuers without casualties.
Ukraine's Security Service detained an FSB agent who was trying to collect intelligence on Ukrainian air defense positions near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, to help Russian troops bypass Ukrainian air defense systems.
Over the next three days, wet weather is expected in Ukraine, with ice on the roads and fog in the western regions, with temperatures ranging from 4°C to 12°C.
The Government has approved the Plan for the Ukraine Facility, a 4-year, €50 billion EU assistance program aimed at implementing structural reforms based on European approaches and bringing Ukraine closer to EU membership, with the potential to receive about €16 billion this year.
As a result of Russian shelling of Kherson region, 3 police officers were injured.
Brent crude oil futures for May delivery on ICE exceeded $86 per barrel, reaching new highs.
Russian attack caused a fire in a five-story building in Kryvyi Rih, which firefighters extinguished after evacuating 28 residents to safety.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops attacked 115 settlements and 190 infrastructure facilities in 11 regions of Ukraine, resulting in civilian casualties.
Two people were killed and a 2-year-old girl was injured in a collision between a Ford Focus and a DAF truck on the Kyiv-Chop highway near the village of Pyatnychany in Lviv region on March 17.
The Security Service of Ukraine detained a father and son who are suspected of preparing missile strikes against Russia by leaking locations of Ukrainian troops and drone manufacturing plants, burying the remains of dead Russian soldiers in the forests near Kyiv and sending photo reports to the FSB.
Work has begun in Romania on the creation of the largest NATO military base in Europe, a 2. 5 billion euro project covering 2,800 hectares and capable of housing up to 10,000 NATO soldiers and their families, with facilities such as runways, hangars, schools, shops and a hospital.
At the request of Poland, Ukraine imported 1,200 MWh of electricity from 11:00 to 15:00 on Monday and exported up to 1,645 MWh, and the power supply situation remained under control despite disruptions caused by shelling in several regions.
In the Dnipropetrovs'k region, a minibus slid into a ditch near the village of Pishchanka, killing 5 people and injuring 13, including 1 child.
In March 2024, the IAEA successfully rotated expert monitoring missions to four Ukrainian nuclear power plants, including the Chornobyl NPP, to ensure their safety in the face of Russia's military aggression.
As of 07:00 on 18. 03.2024, there were no enemy ships in the Black and Azov Seas, but 3 enemy ships were present in the Mediterranean, including 2 Kalibr cruise missile carriers with a total volley of up to 12 missiles.
In the occupied part of Luhansk region, the Russian occupiers extended early "voting" in their "elections" in Sievierodonetsk from 4 days to a week and failed to achieve a record turnout, falling short of 9. 5%.
On March 17, Russians injured 2 residents of Donetsk region in Myrnohrad, and since February 24, 2022, they have killed 1885 civilians and injured 4718 more in Donetsk region, not including unknown victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Russian troops shelled residential areas in the Kherson region, damaging houses, infrastructure, vehicles, and wounding one person.
On March 17, an enemy rocket attack on an infrastructure facility in Mykolaiv killed one person, injured nine, including two children, and damaged buildings, cars, and infrastructure.
A hostile drone attack in the Oleksandriya district of Kirovohrad region damaged private industrial facilities and residential buildings, causing a blast wave that smashed windows and damaged roofs.
Late in the evening, the air defense shot down 2 Shaheds in Kryvyi Rih district, the debris damaged a building and caused a fire, although no one was injured, and Russian troops shelled Nikopol district, damaging buildings and infrastructure.
Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories should refrain from participating in, observing or providing any assistance to the illegal pseudo-elections organized by the Russian occupiers, as such actions contravene Ukrainian law and international norms and may lead to criminal liability.
