Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.53 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters on January 17, where the production of drones and the missile program were discussed. Zelensky announced this in his evening address.
21:52 A volunteer girl from Belarus, Maria Zaitseva, has died on the front in Ukraine. This was reported by Belarusian media. It is noted that the girl died in battles near Bakhmut, where she fought as part of the 2nd International Legion. She turned 24 on January 16, and she died on the morning of the 17th.
20.36 During the missile strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on December 30 on the Russian headquarters in the city of Lgov in the Kursk region, three lieutenant colonels of the 76th division of the Russian airborne troops were killed. This is reported by the Russian media.
18.45 Russia and Iran have signed a new bilateral cooperation agreement called the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty. The document was signed by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. The agreement does not seem to provide for mutual defense in the event of an attack and does not mention specific countries or military blocs.
18.40 A lieutenant of the Russian FSB, who threatened with a weapon and raped two girls in the Kherson region, received a sentence in absentia - 12 years of imprisonment. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
18.22 In Krivoy Rog, the number of victims as a result of the Russian ballistic missile strike has increased to nine people. The number of fatalities has not changed - four people. Emergency rescue operations have been completed. January 20 has been declared a day of mourning in Krivoy Rog.
18.19 A driver who tried to escape from the TCC after being stopped by police on the Kiev-Odesa highway has been detained. This was reported by the Patrol Police of the Odessa Region. The patrol officers drew up a number of administrative materials on the man and handed him over to the employees of the TCC and the SP.
18:09 Servicemen of the 79th separate airborne assault Tavricheskaya brigade stormed a Russian position in the Novopavlovsk direction and captured seven Russian servicemen. This was reported by the brigade's press service on Friday, January 17.
17.25 Russian troops have moved to a completely new level of attacks on the energy system this winter and are using all available weapons for this, which causes significantly greater damage and complicates the restoration of facilities. This was reported by Energy Minister German Galushchenko during the "hour of questions to the government" in the Verkhovna Rada.
16.39 Russian oil refineries last year cut oil processing to a 12-year low of about 267 million tonnes due to unscheduled maintenance after Ukrainian drone attacks and falling margins, Reuters reports .
16:32 President Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine to senior soldier Dmitry Maslovsky of the 71st separate ranger brigade of the Airborne Assault Troops. This was reported on the president's Telegram channel.
Also today, the President awarded orders to soldiers who managed to capture the first soldiers from North Korea in the Kursk direction. The Order of the 3rd degree - Bohdan Khmelnytsky and For Courage - was awarded to paratroopers of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade and soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine - the Separate Special Operations Center West named after Prince Izyaslav Mstislavich.
15.39 In the Zaporizhia direction, Russian troops used a drone to attack a car in which Ukrainian Witness journalist Margarita Potapova and cameraman Alexander Davydenko were located. This is stated in the team's report .
14.58 A man who had previously buried his wife in the then occupied Kherson lost his second wife to Russian war criminals on Friday, January 17. She was killed by debris in her own car.
14.49 Operators of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a group of Russians who executed captured TRO fighters. Three occupiers surrendered and are already giving testimony. This was reported by the press service of the SSO on Friday, January 17.
14:27 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky took part in an extraordinary meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council in a military format at the level of commanders-in-chief of the Armed Forces and presented the allies with Ukraine's strategy of action for 2025. The general reported this on Friday, January 17.
13:50 In Kryvyi Rih, the death toll from the Russian missile strike has risen to four. Another six people were injured. Two five-story buildings, an educational institution, and an unused building were damaged.
13:35 Law enforcement officers detained a Russian agent in Odessa who was adjusting Russian missile and drone strikes on local locations of the Defense Forces. For the sake of secrecy, the agent grew long hair and pretended to be a girl.
13:01 Russian aggressors attacked Krivoy Rog with ballistic missiles. At least three people were killed and there are wounded. According to the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, an educational institution and residential buildings were damaged in the city.
12:53 Basic combined arms training (BCT) for students of higher education institutions will begin in September 2025 and will include 300 academic hours. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Brigadier General of Justice Serhiy Melnyk.
12:13 A person injured in the shelling of the city on January 8 has died in a hospital in Zaporizhia. The death toll has risen to 14. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov on the air of a telethon on Friday, January 17.
11:44 Three Kyiv residents tried to flee to Transnistria , pretending to be military personnel. They were detained in the Odessa region. The violators were brought to administrative responsibility. The cases are already in court.
10:56 The Security Service exposed the chief accountant of one of the branches of Ukrzaliznytsia in the Poltava region as collaborating with the FSB. The agent's "liaison" turned out to be her husband, a militant of the Russian occupation groups fighting against Ukraine on the eastern front.
10:25 Law enforcement officers are conducting more than 200 searches in 19 regions of Ukraine as part of the investigation into cases of illegal border crossing by conscripts. According to the National Police, this concerns violations committed through fraud, document forgery, unauthorized interference in the operation of electronic registers and bribery of officials.
9:59 Ukrainian Defense Forces hit radar equipment of Russian troops. Soldiers struck targets in the Belgorod region. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
9:46 Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles on the night of January 17. One of the drones flew into Romania. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:58 Over the past 24 hours, January 16, the Russians exerted the most pressure in the Pokrovsk direction. In total, 141 battles took place on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:47 Russian troops destroyed some positions of the Ukrainian forces in the Pokrovsk direction. The defense forces are taking measures to prevent the tactical situation from worsening. This was reported by the OSGV Khortytsya.
8:32 The Russians equipped the headquarters of the Russian Armed Forces in one of the civilian facilities in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The invaders also use civilian transport for movement. This was reported by the partisan movement Atesh.
7:59 On the night of January 17, Russian war criminals struck the Izmail district of the Odessa region during an air attack using drones. The target of the shelling was the local port infrastructure.
7:48 Over the past 24 hours from January 16 to 17, Russians have lost 1,670 soldiers at the front. This is evidenced by data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7:28 The North Korean contingent of about 12,000 people fighting against Ukrainian defense forces in the Kursk region may be killed or destroyed in the next three months. This is the conclusion reached in a report by analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War.
5:29 Russian troops captured Peschanoye, Slavyanka, Yasenovo in Donbass, and also advanced near Novoandriivka, Dachnoye, Kotlinoe, Zverevoye, in Vremovka and Chasovy Yar, DeepState reported.
1:30 In one of the settlements of the Kyiv region, a child was injured due to falling debris from a downed UAV. Also, due to falling debris, a fire occurred in a cafe-shop and an attached boiler room on an area of ​​about 200 square meters.