Russia-Ukraine war LIVE updates | Russian state TV scribe who criticised Ukraine invasion flees
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<p><strong>Russia-Ukraine war: </strong></p> <ul><li>Explosions were heard in Kyiv on October 17. </li> <li>Blasts in Shevchenkivskiy district.</li> <li>Kyiv was hit by kamikaze drones.</li> <li>Officials said that Iranian drones were used. </li> </ul><p><strong>WION brings the latest updates to you</strong></p>Key Updates
17 Oct 2022, 6:21 PM (IST)
Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian state television journalist who protested President Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion during a live broadcast, has fled the country, her lawyer told AFP on Monday.
Putin had reportedly put Ovsyannikova on a wanted list after her open rebellion.
"Ovsyannikova and her daughter left Russia a few hours after departing from the address where she was under house arrest. They are in Europe now," Ovsyannikova's lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov told AFP.
"They are fine. They are waiting until they can talk about publicly, but for now it is not safe," he added.
17 Oct 2022, 3:13 PM (IST)
Dmitry Medvedev, the former leader of Russia warned Israel against supplying weapons to Ukraine.
He said any move to bolster Kyiv's forces would severely damage bilateral ties.
"Israel appears to be getting ready to supply weapons to the Kyiv regime. A very reckless move. It would destroy all bilateral relations between our countries," the former president and prime minister said in a statement on Telegram.
17 Oct 2022, 3:09 PM (IST)
The city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that the military draft offices in Moscow to close today, Kremlin's 'partial mobilisation' quotas 'completed' in capital.
"Gathering points for mobilised people will close on October 17 2022, at 2:00 pm, 1100GMT," Sobyanin said on his website.
He added that "the tasks of the partial mobilisation" -- announced just over a month ago -- in the city had been "completed in full."
17 Oct 2022, 2:11 PM (IST)
After the drone strikes, a senior Ukrainian official called for Russia to be excluded from the G20, which is to hold a summit in a month.
"Those who give orders to attack critical infrastructure, to freeze civilians and organize total mobilisation to cover the frontline with corpses, cannot sit at the same table with leaders of (the) G20 for sure ... (Russia) must be expelled from all platforms," senior presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak said in a statement on social media.
17 Oct 2022, 12:54 PM (IST)
The Ukrainian capital had been struck four times in an early morning Russian attack with Iranian drones, the officials said.
They also added that the strikes have damaged a residential building and targeted the central train station.
Military officials in the capital said: "As of 9:00 am (0600 GMT) four strikes have been recorded in Kyiv. A residential building in the Shevchenko district was hit. Information about the victims is being clarified."
17 Oct 2022, 10:48 AM (IST)
After a missile strike, a large fire broke out at an energy facility in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, a local official reported on Monday.
Valentyn Reznichenko, who is the governor of the region, said on the Telegram messaging app: "Three enemy missiles were destroyed by our air defence forces."
"One missile hit an energy infrastructure facility. There is a big fire. All services are working on the site," Reznichenko added.
17 Oct 2022, 10:23 AM (IST)
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Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president's staff, wrote on the Telegram that the capital of Kyiv was hit by kamikaze drones.
"Russians think it will help them," Yermak said.
17 Oct 2022, 9:56 (IST)