There have been explosions 🔥 heard in Downtown Kyiv, reports the Train Station was attacked by Iranian Kamikaze Drones pic.twitter.com/FG71IRQxn9

— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) October 17, 2022

AFP's @YasuyoshiChiba captured the moment a drone approached to attack Kyiv, and the immediate aftermath of the strikes pic.twitter.com/9Sd1mxgLku

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 17, 2022

Russia's drone strike on civilian targets in central Kyiv killed at least 4 people on Oct. 17.

Among the victims was a young couple expecting a baby.

📷Paula Bronstein /Getty Images pic.twitter.com/bWf4F8AfI5

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 17, 2022

Overnight Ukrainian Forces 🇺🇦 have shot down 26 Iranian Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drones reports the commander of Ukraine’s Air Force

— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) October 17, 2022

#Ukraine: One of the Iranian/Russian Shahed-136 drones that didn't reach its target over #Kyiv after being shot down by Ukrainian AD. Possible that an air-to-air missile was used to take this example out. pic.twitter.com/y0QSn1GHwT

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) October 17, 2022

Explosions 🔥 are heard in Kyiv now, it appears another Kamikaze drone attack is occurring

— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) October 17, 2022

Today Russian Forces attacked the City of Dnipro but the air defenses worked and shot down three missiles in the suburbs 🇺🇦

Dnipro is one of the only major cities in Ukraine that hasn’t been hit by an Iranian Kamikaze Drone

— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) October 17, 2022

⚡️ Reuters: Iran again denies supplying kamikaze drones to Russia.

"(Reports) about Iran providing Russia with drones has political ambitions. We have not provided weaponry to any side of the war," Iran's FM spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Oct. 17, according to Reuters.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 17, 2022

#war A fighter jet of the 🇷🇺Russian Air Force crashed and fell on a residential building in Yeysk on the coast of the Sea of Azov today on October 17. The photo you see the parachute of the ejecting pilot. pic.twitter.com/QKH0vqwOCQ

— Capt(N) (@Capt_Navy) October 17, 2022

The firsts of the 40 Marder 1 IFVs are already on Greek soil. The vehicles will be transferred to PEV for necessary inspections, and will soon go to military units. At the same time, Greece will immediately initiate the BMP-1 transfer to Ukraine.https://t.co/XVH2MXXrbd pic.twitter.com/OiiyiWYZSB

— Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) October 17, 2022

While @DmytroKuleba addresses #FAC from a bomb shelter, we raise EU military assistance to €3.1 billion & launch the EU military training mission for #Ukraine.

Russia’s latest indiscriminate attacks will not shake our determination to support Ukraine, it will only reinforce it. pic.twitter.com/bnWDJKRdJb

— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) October 17, 2022

#BREAKING Medvedev warns Israel that its ties with #Russia would be destroyed if it will send weapons to #Ukraine

— Guy Elster (@guyelster) October 17, 2022

Moscow 🇷🇺: Three Russians have been arrested in the case of a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge: Alexander Bylin, Oleg Antipov and Dmitry Heavy are charged with terrorism.

Putin is realizing his fear of his own people is not paranoia: It’s a deserved and legitimate fear.

— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) October 17, 2022

#Svatove axis update. I updated the mapstyle, added 🇷🇺 shelling which is reported in Berestove, Petropavlivka, Pershotravneve,Hrekivka and Novoyehorivka. Also added a scale.

Raihodorodka, Kovalivka & Novodyane are considered 🇺🇦 given daily/repetative 🇷🇺 shelling in the villages. pic.twitter.com/gUCZXUg7Ph

— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 17, 2022

Eastern #Ukraine Update:#Russian forces are likely falsifying claims of advances in the #Bakhmut area to portray themselves as making gains in at least one sector amid continuing losses in northeast and southern Ukraine.https://t.co/mgBchOfFcn pic.twitter.com/U1eyQaEEgA

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 17, 2022

Reports that Russia is using Tirada-2s EW complex to jam Starlink. So far the jamming of Starlink has been ineffective. The Tirada-2s is said to cover up to 14GHz (I suspect the high frequency is closer to 40GHz due to freqs of US military sats the systems was designed target!) pic.twitter.com/L7IPH74cCp

— Radio & Nukes 🇺🇦 (@HamWa07) October 16, 2022

BREAKING:

Chancellor Scholz decides to keep all three German nuclear reactors active until April 2023, not just 2 as previously planned.

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 17, 2022