Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,178 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the key events on 1,178 of the Russian War in Ukraine.

This is where things are on Saturday, May 17:

Struggle

Russia is a preparation for a new military offensive in Ukraine, said the Ukinian government and Western military analysts, such as Russia Defense Minister Andrei Belosov, was in Minsk on Friday to discuss the joint military exercises in September and deliveries to Beleiges.
An attack with unmanned planes against the city of the northeast of Kupiansk killed a 55 -year -old woman and wounded four men, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces confiscated six settlements in eastern Ukraine during the past week. According to a statement from the Ministry, the Russian troops advanced in the Donetsk region and Torske’s control, Kotlyarivka, MyRolyubivka, Mykhailivka, Novoolksandrivka and Vilne Pole Settlements, the Tukiye agency.

The Russian Ministry of Defense launched a video that shows Russian forces by raising the Russian flag in the Mykhailivka settlement.
A court in the Russian Luhansk region of Ukraine condemned Oscar Australiano National Charles Augustus Jenkins to 13 years in jail in a high security criminal colony for fighting Wealf of Ukraine, reports Anadolu.

The first direct dialogue of Russia-Ukraine in three years on Friday produced good results, said Kirill Dmitriev, the investment envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Friday night. “1. Bigger Pow exchange 2. High options that can work 3. Understanding positions and continuous dialogue,” Dmitriev said on the social media platform X.
Ukraine Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said after the conversations that some 000 prisoners on each side will be exchanged “in the near future”, in the largest exchange since the beginning of the war in 2022.
Umerov directed the Ukrainian delegation, which ended after 90 minutes in Istanbul, while Putin’s advisor Vladimir Medinsky, negotiated on behalf of or Russia. The United States delegation was directed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Medinsky, who was the main Russian negotiator, expressed satisfaction with the conversations and said that Moscow was ready for new negotiations, even in a high fire. “We have agreed that all parties will present their views on a possible fire and establish them in detail,” Medinsky said after the meeting.

A source in the Ukrainian delegation told the Reuters news agency that Russia’s demands were “separated from reality and go far beyond everything that was previously discussed.” The source said that Moscow had issued ultimatums for Ukraine to withdraw from parts of its own territory to obtain a high fire “and other non -corrective conditions.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who opened the conversations welcoming both delegations and asking for a rapid fire, served as a buffer between the negotiation tables at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy expressed his regret after the conversations so he called a lost opportunity for peace. “This week, we had a real opportunity to move forward to finish the war, if Putin had a bone to come to Turkiye,” Zenskyy published in X from the margin of a summit of the European political community (EPC) in Albania.
Zenskyy, who did not attend the conversations, said he had been “ready for a direct meeting with him [Putin] To solve all key problems “, but” he did everything that agreed anything. “
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, who has pressed for the end of the conflict, said he would meet with Putin “as soon as we can establish it” in an attempt to advance in peace conversations. “I think it’s time for us to do it,” Trump told journalists at Abu Dhabi while involving a trip to the Middle East.

Zenskyy was in Tirana, Albania, on Friday with European leaders to discuss the security, defense and democratic standards in the context of war. Hero a telephone call with French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
European leaders also agreed to continue with the joint action against Russia about the failure in Turkiye to accept a high fire in Ukraine, said the prime minister after consultations with President Trump.
Starmer said after the conversations that the Russian position was “clearly unacceptable” and that European leaders, Ukraine and the United States were “closely aligning” their answers.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced new plans for additional sanctions to Moscow after Putin could not travel to Turkiye to negotiate with Ukraine.
American senators renewed the calls on Friday so that Congress approves sanctions on Russia after Russia-Ukraine fire conversations showed little progress, but the votes on the bills introduced in serious were not scheduled.

Russia and Belarus are preparing a new and large military maneuvre together, reports the state agency Belarusa Belta. “We plan to jointly develop measures to counteract the state of the Union,” said Defense Minister Belosov a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart, Viktor Khrenin, in Minsk, according to Belta. The State of the Union combines Russia and Belarus.
The exercise, called Zapad-2025, or West-2025 in English, will be the main event of combat training of regional troops formations, he said. The maneuver is scheduled for mid -September, according to the agency.

Russia’s economic growth slowed to 1.4 percent year -on -year in the first quarter of 2025, the lowest quarterly figure in two years, the data of the official state statistics agency showed Friday on Friday.
Economists have warned for months of a slowdown in the Russian economy, with the fall in oil prices, high interest rates and a recession in manufacturing that contribute to winds against. Moscow reported strong economic growth in 2023 and 2024, largely due to the mass expenditure of state defense in the Ukraine conflict.
The Baltic Sea States Council (CBSS), which repeats the Border Sea Borders, requested new shipping rules to allow the shadow of the shadow of the shadow of the shadow of the shadow of Russia.