On the 387th day of the full-scale Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine Russian troops continue to try to keep the captured settlements of the neighboring country under control. The armed forces and units of the territorial defense of Ukraine resist aggression. It is impossible to verify the statements of representatives of both sides from independent sources. According to the UN, more than 16 million Ukrainians have already left their homes. DW is watching developments Friday, March 17 (Moscow time).
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Curfew in Kyiv and Kyiv region it is planned to reduce by 1 hour: from March 26, it will probably operate not from 23.00, but from midnight to 5.00. How informed The Kiev city military administration, respectively, will continue the work of the metro and ground transport, as well as shops and restaurants. “After the issue of improving the system of engineering barriers has been resolved, procedural coordination is now ongoing on the timing and procedure for changing the duration of the curfew in Kyiv,” the report says.
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The United States sent a new reconnaissance drone towards the annexed Crimea – data Flightradar24 testify that the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone with the callsign FORTE10, which took off from the Sigonella airbase near the Italian city of Catania, entered the Black Sea and for some time was in Romanian airspace, Channel 24 reports.
Meanwhile, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented pilots of Su-27 fighters who attacked on March 14 for state awards. American drone MQ-9 Reaper in the international waters of the Black Sea, which led to its collapse. US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at the time that this was “the result of profound incompetence” of the pilots.
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