Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on April 17. The Ukrainian army is heroically defending its land for the eighth week.
04.30. Britain will send armored vehicles to Ukraine in the coming days, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised.
The British prime minister told Zelensky that he would “continue to work closely with allies and partners to ensure that Ukraine is able to defend its sovereignty in the coming weeks and months,” Downing Street said.
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00.21. More than 1,400 people have been evacuated from settlements surrounded or occupied by Russian troops on humanitarian corridors in Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said.
00.10. Russia’s threat has not changed Finland’s attitude towards NATO. “We should not pay too much attention to the Russian Federation’s threat about some of the ‘consequences’ of Finland’s accession to NATO,” said Finnish Foreign Minister Pekki Havisto.
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