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Combat Operations

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 17.04.2023 Ukraine MOD 17 Apr 2023
• Fresh Russian Strikes Cause Deaths, Destroy Churches, Hospitals, As Ukraine Grain Dispute Mounts RFE/RL 17 Apr 2023 -- Fighting continued unabated in the eastern Donetsk region as Russian forces struck cities in two southern Ukrainian regions, causing deaths among civilians and damaging infrastructure, while a dispute within the European Union regarding Ukraine's grain exports continued to escalate.

Ukraine

• We are preparing for the next Ramstein meeting, we expect solidly grounded decisions to meet the prospects on the battlefield - address of the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine 17 Apr 2023
• President holds meeting of Staff of Supreme Commander-in-Chief President of Ukraine 17 Apr 2023

Russia

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's address to the readers of the monograph History of Ukraine Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 17 Apr 2023

United States

• Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Ukrainian Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov DoD 17 Apr 2023
• Partnered Commitment to Ukraine Unlikely to be Deterred by Recent Intel Leaks DoD News 17 Apr 2023 -- This Friday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III will again host a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The meeting will come in the latter half of a four-day trip in Europe, which will also include Sweden.
• Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh Holds a Press Briefing DoD 17 Apr 2023
• Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks Following Meeting with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin US Dept. of Justice 17 Apr 2023
• U.S., U.K. Defense Leaders Discuss Ukraine, AUKUS in Pentagon Meeting DoD News 17 Apr 2023 -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III welcomed Ben Wallace, the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Defense, to the Pentagon today to discuss the short-term and long-term implications of the U.S.-U.K. alliance.

NATO

United Nations

• WFP chartered grain vessel arrives in Yemen following extension of Black Sea grain agreement WFP 17 Apr 2023 -- A UN World Food Programme-chartered vessel berthed today in Al Salif port in Hodeidah, carrying 30,000 metric tons of wheat grain to support humanitarian assistance in Yemen.

Foreign Reactions

• G7 talks tough on Ukraine, Taiwan and Korea during Blinken's Asia trip Radio Free Asia 17 Apr 2023 -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Japan where he, together with other foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations, discussed a common approach to the war in Ukraine Monday, confirming "that they remain committed to intensifying, fully coordinating and enforcing sanctions against Russia, as well as to continuing strong support for Ukraine," according to a Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry statement.
• PACE session: situation of Ukrainian civilians, including children, forcibly displaced to Russia; political strategies to prevent natural disasters Council of Europe 17 Apr 2023 -- An urgent debate on "The situation of Ukrainian civilians, including children, forcibly displaced or transferred to the Russian Federation or Ukrainian territories under the de facto control of the Russian Federation", with the online intervention of Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska, will be among topics debated at the Spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), taking place in Strasbourg from 24-28 April.
• All Slovak MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets are in Ukraine already Ministry of Defence of The Slovak Republic 17 Apr 2023 -- Slovakia has already handed all of the announced 13 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets over to Ukraine.
• Slovakia to Suspend Imports of Grain, Other Selected Products From Ukraine Sputnik 17 Apr 2023 -- Slovakia will temporarily suspend imports of grain and other selected products from Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Monday.
• The President in The Hague: We cannot and will not allow war criminals to escape accountability President of the Republic of Lithuania 17 Apr 2023 -- As part of his working visit to the Netherlands, President Gitanas Nausėda met in The Hague with the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Piotr Hofmański, and the Vice-President of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust), Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė.
• South African Holocaust Center Says Russia is on 'Road to Genocide' in Ukraine VOA 17 Apr 2023 -- In welcoming Professor Olexiy Haran, who is part of a three-member Ukrainian delegation seeking support for the fight against Russia, the Holocaust Center's Director Richard Freedman said the suffering in Ukraine should not be ignored.

News Reports

• Latest in Ukraine: EU Rejects Bans on Ukraine Grain VOA 17 Apr 2023
• Families Of Flight PS752 Victims Criticize Iran's Judiciary For 'Show Trial' RFE/RL 17 Apr 2023 -- An association representing the families of those killed in the downing of a Ukrainian commercial flight by Iran more than two years ago has criticized the verdicts issued in Iran against the alleged perpetrators as a "show trial."
• Iranian officers receive jail sentences for downing Ukrainian plane in 2020 IRNA 17 Apr 2023 -- A military court in Iran has delivered a verdict to those who were behind the downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) in 2020.