⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 17 Apr 2023⚡️

🔹#Russia's Border Areas:

▪️ In the #Bryansk region, there was an attempt to illegally cross the state border near the village of #Zapesochye by #Ukraine - the violator was blown up on a mined defensive line.

▪️ In the #Belgorod region during the night, Ukrainian drones attacked 330kV substations in the villages of Blizhnyaya Igumenka and #Dragunskoye in the Belgorod district, causing a fire at the facilities.

➖ The AFU terrorists struck residential buildings and infrastructure in #Krasnoye village, Lozovaya Rudka farmstead, as well as #Murom and #Spodaryushino villages, civilians were not harmed.

🔹#Starobelsk (#Svatovo) Direction:

▪️ In the #Kupyansk sector of the front, the situation has not changed significantly. Mutual reconnaissance and artillery duels continue along the line of contact.

➖ Russian Aerospace Forces struck enemy positions between #Rakov and #Masyutovka with FAB-500 precision bombs with planning and correction modules.

▪️ In the #Liman sector, positional fighting continues in the #Serebryanskoye forestry and near the Balka Zhuravka.

🔹#Soledar (#Bakhmut) Direction (MAP):

▪️ In the #Lisichansk sector, units of the RF Armed Forces broke through the AFU defence south of #Belogorovka. Currently, fighting is taking place on the southeastern outskirts of the settlement.

▪️ In the northern outskirts of #Bakhmut, fighters of the Wagner PMCs are storming the enemy strongholds on Pobedy Street.

➖ In the central part of the city, the "Wagnerians" have dislodged the AFU from the area of the Artyomovsk elevator and are also fighting for control over the railway station.

➖ At the same time, Russian units are advancing towards garages in the Poselok area.

🔹#Donetsk Direction:

▪️ In #Avdeyevka sector, soldiers of the RF Armed Forces, supported by artillery and tanks, continue their operation to encircle the AFU grouping in the city.

▪️ In #Maryinka, both sides are engaged in fierce fighting in the area of Druzhba Avenue. Russian artillery is targeting enemy positions on the western outskirts of the town.

▪️ In the #Ugledar section, Ukrainian units attempted a counterattack: Russian forces detected the enemy's advance and dispersed it with heavy artillery and aviation fire.

▪️ Ukrainian terrorist formations continue shelling settlements in the #Donetsk agglomeration with barrel and rocket artillery. Residential buildings in the Petrovsky and Kuybyshevsky districts of #Donetsk have also been hit.

🔹#Zaporozhye Direction:

▪️ The situation in this section of the front remains steadily tense, with both sides conducting reconnaissance activities and exchanging artillery strikes.

🔹#Kherson Direction on #SouthFront:

▪️ Artillery duels continue along the entire line of contact, with Russian forces hitting enemy concentrations in #Kherson, #Kazatskoye and #Lvovo.
➖ Ukrainian formations, for their part, shelled settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper River.

🔸Political and other Events:

▪️ #Slovakia has followed #Poland and #Hungary in temporarily banning imports of Ukrainian agricultural products.

▪️ The #Ternopol authorities have deprived the UOC MP of the right to dispose of land plots in the city.

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