WAR IN UKRAINE: November 17, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day: 267
Russian missiles & Iranian-made drones targeting several Ukrainian cities this morning, including Kyiv, Dnipro and Odesa. An Odesa official called it a massive rocket attack across Ukraine. Two infrastructure objects reportedly hit in Dnipro, as well as one in Odesa. As a result of the rocket attack on the Odesa region this morning, three people were injured, the regional state administration reported. Odesa region remained under an air raid siren alert, as did several other oblasts in Ukraine.
Ukrenergo warns of 'hard days' after Russia's biggest attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. As the weather is getting colder and the electricity consumption is growing, so will the load on the grid, said Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukraine's state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo - Kyiv Independent
Ukraine’s parliament votes to extend martial law, mobilization. The Verkhovna Rada has prolonged Ukraine’s martial law and mobilization for the fifth time since the start of Russia’s all-out war, according to lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak. Both measures are extended for 90 days until Feb. 19, 2023. Zhelezniak said 294 and 297 lawmakers voted in favor of extending martial law and mobilization, respectively - Kyiv Independent
Russia's use of land mines in Ukraine, including newly produced models, threatens to overturn progress made on the issue over the past 25 years, a monitor said on November 17 - RFE/RL
Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry said on November 17 that an agreement had been reached to extend the Black Sea grain initiative by 120 days.