What 17 November 2022 showed across Ukraine's regions
A retrospective on a day of missile strikes on several cities and a Dutch verdict over the 2014 downing of Flight MH17.
What did 17 November 2022 look like beyond Kyiv? In the regions, it was a day of renewed missile fire. Russia carried out another wave of cruise missile strikes, with attacks reported in Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. In Zaporizhzhia, two people were confirmed killed overnight by a missile.
In Dnipro and Odesa, critical infrastructure was also targeted. The strikes were part of the October–November 2022 series of nationwide missile attacks on Ukraine. That the targets spanned the east, south and centre of the country shows how widely the strikes were spread.
The same date also brought a ruling on an older event in a different setting. A court in the Netherlands sentenced two Russians, Igor Strelkov-Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky, and a Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist, Leonid Kharchenko, to life imprisonment for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Donetsk Oblast in 2014. The verdict was delivered in the absence of the defendants.
Together, the two developments placed Ukrainian regions at the centre of events on 17 November 2022. One was a new wave of strikes on cities. The other was a judicial finding about a 2014 incident in Donetsk Oblast.
