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Russia said connected Friday (October 17, 2025) it had captured 3 villages successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, including areas Kyiv had retaken 3 years agone successful a astonishment counter-offensive.
The Moscow subject bid said it had captured the villages of Pishchane and Tykhe successful Kharkiv and Pryvillia successful Dnipropetrovsk.
The Russian service is grinding done eastbound Ukraine successful costly metre-for-metre battles for tiny settlements, mostly devastated by warring since February 2022 and with a fewer inhabitants left.
Ukraine had recaptured ample parts of the Kharkiv region, including Pishchane, successful a swift run successful autumn 2022, triggering a Russian subject draught for the archetypal clip since World War II.
But now, the Russian forces are dilatory advancing again, trying to encircle the important logistics hub of Kupiansk, Ukraine’s large summation successful the 2022 counter-offensive.
The Russian violative has killed tens of thousands and devastated ample swathes of eastbound Ukraine, forcing millions to fly their homes.
On Friday (October 17), “two adults and a 10-year-old kid were killed during aggravated shelling of a residential area” by Kyiv successful the Russian-occupied portion of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the Moscow-installed politician said.
Kyiv meantime said that “one idiosyncratic was killed and 14 were wounded successful Russian shelling” successful the Ukrainian-held portion of the region.
Russia pounded Ukraine with 70 drones overnight, hours aft President Vladimir Putin spoke to U.S. counterpart Donald Trump by telephone during which they agreed to clasp a caller summit.
The Moscow service said it had intercepted 61 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly successful Russia’s occidental regions and the occupied Crimea peninsula.
