The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate UAH 460. 5 million in subventions for the construction of shelters in schools and military lyceums in 7 regions and 18 communities. It is planned to build more than 200 shelters by 2025.
Investigators from the National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine are conducting searches at Kyivmisksvitlo in connection with the 2021 electricity supply case. This is the third search in a week after the inspections on February 13 and 14.
The head of KCMA, Timur Tkachenko, announced the termination of live broadcasts from Independence Square following public reaction. Reuters was criticized for violating martial law security restrictions.
According to media reports, the NABU uses extra-procedural influence on defendants in criminal cases. The purpose of the pressure is to organize provocations of bribes for high-ranking officials.
Reuters set up a camera and broadcast live from Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv, causing outrage due to security restrictions imposed by martial law. Social media users and media outlets criticize Reuters' actions because of possible security threats.
The head of a penal colony department was detained in Kyiv region for passing information about former prisoners to the FSB. The offender faces life imprisonment for high treason.
In Dolynska, Kirovohrad region, a drone attacked a high-rise building, injuring a mother and two children. Residents of 38 apartments were evacuated, and Kropyvnytskyi district was also attacked.
Cloudy weather without precipitation is expected in most regions of Ukraine. There will be icy conditions on the roads, with temperatures ranging from 0° to -6°, and up to -10° in the highlands of the Carpathians.
On February 18, 2014, violent confrontation between security forces and protesters on the Maidan began. During the three-day clashes, 82 people died and 622 were injured.
Russian troops attacked Kyiv with drones in the evening of February 17. The falling wreckage of a downed drone caused a fire in a warehouse in the Sviatoshynskyi district.
Wreckage of an enemy UAV fell in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv, setting fire to cars in the yard of a residential building. A fire was also reported on the territory of an industrial enterprise.
Explosions and the operation of air defense systems were recorded in the capital of Ukraine. The air force reports the movement of several groups of enemy drones in different regions of the country.
In Kyiv school #309, students performed a skit about beating a TCC employee. Minister of Education Oksen Lisovyi demanded an internal investigation and called such behavior unacceptable.
Kyiv is planning to cancel the traffic control on the South Bridge for cars. The head of the KCMA, Timur Tkachenko, said that there is no longer a need to restrict traffic across the bridge.
Investigation against the acting head of the State Customs Service for failure to declare property worth more than $100,000 is completed. The official registered a house and land near Kyiv for his wife's relative.
A 53-year-old resident of the village of Hubkiv reported that the Bereznovsky shopping center was bombed because he was dissatisfied with the actions of his employees. The police and special services checked the building, found no explosives, and detained the attacker.
During a school event at school No. 309, students staged a beating of a TCC soldier. The incident caused a stir, a commission was set up to investigate, and law enforcement officers joined the case.
The children's book Freckleface Strawberry by actress Julianne Moore has been banned from US Department of Defense schools. The book tells the story of a girl who learns to accept her freckles.
On the night of February 14, unidentified persons set fire to the car of Svetlana Kryukova, a former journalist of the banned publication Strana, in Kyiv. Criminal proceedings were initiated over the arson.
As a result of Russia's invasion, direct damage to Ukraine's infrastructure increased by $12. 6 billion to $170 billion. The largest losses were incurred in the housing stock ($60 billion), transportation ($38.5 billion), and energy ($14.6 billion).
The SBU detained a former teacher of a Kherson school who helped the occupiers take 6 children to Crimea. The suspect tried to avoid justice by hiding in Kyiv after the liberation of Kherson.
A 32-year-old Kyiv resident reported a bomb threat at a shopping center because of a conflict with the facility's security. Law enforcement officers quickly detained the offender, who faces up to 6 years in prison.
NPC Ukrenergo has canceled the schedule of emergency power outages in Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Poltava and Kirovohrad regions. The cancellation of the outages came into effect at 10:30 am.
In some places, up to 4 cm of snow has fallen in Ukraine, and the temperature in the east is -18°C. There are 492 vehicles working on the roads, and the main roads are free of traffic.
All passenger trains are running on schedule despite the difficult weather conditions. Railroad workers are actively clearing snow from stations and tracks, and the Kyiv city train is recommended as a reliable means of transportation.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, 763,759 new individual entrepreneurs (FOP) have opened, and 684,995 have closed. The most popular sectors are retail trade and IT, and the share of women entrepreneurs has grown to 61%.
At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with 147 Shahed drones and imitator drones from different directions. Air defense forces shot down 83 attack drones, detected 59 imitator drones, and damaged 4 regions.
Emergency power outages for residential consumers are applied only in certain cases. Industrial consumers and businesses are primarily disconnected due to the consequences of Russian attacks.
On the morning of February 17, 2025, Ukraine started applying emergency power outage schedules. At the command of Ukrenergo, blackouts are taking place in Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Sumy and Kirovohrad regions.
A 20-year-old man was injured in a nighttime UAV attack on Kyiv region. Private houses, cars and industrial premises in Obukhiv, Vyshgorod, Fastiv and Boryspil districts were damaged.
