{"id":45593,"date":"2026-02-17T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/over-the-past-day-the-defense-forces-eliminated-890-russian-occupiers-and-destroyed-over-600-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:21:13","slug":"over-the-past-day-the-defense-forces-eliminated-890-russian-occupiers-and-destroyed-over-600-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/over-the-past-day-the-defense-forces-eliminated-890-russian-occupiers-and-destroyed-over-600-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the past day, the Defense Forces eliminated 890 Russian occupiers and destroyed over 600 drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past day, the Ukrainian Defense Forces eliminated 890 Russian occupiers. Also destroyed were 614 UAVs, 71 units of automotive equipment, 4 artillery systems, 3 armored combat vehicles, and 2 tanks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F30%2F1767071383-2255-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Over the past day, the Defense Forces eliminated 890 Russian occupiers and destroyed over 600 drones\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine presented fresh data on the losses of Russian invaders as of the morning of February 17. Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian defenders eliminated 890 occupiers, equipment, and enemy UAVs. This was reported by UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The most effective area of work for the Defense Forces over the past day was the destruction of unmanned systems and transport support for the occupiers. In addition to the 890 servicemen who were &quot;eliminated,&quot; the enemy lost a significant amount of resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Personnel \u2013 890 occupiers eliminated;  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Operational-tactical level UAVs \u2013 614 units destroyed;  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Automotive equipment and fuel tankers \u2013 71 units burned;  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Artillery systems \u2013 4 units demilitarized;  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Armored combat vehicles \u2013 3 units destroyed;  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Tanks \u2013 2 units turned into scrap metal.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/img\/2026\/02\/17\/1771303875-3647-large.webp\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p>A large-scale missile attack on Ukraine caused an alarm throughout the country and the activation of air defense forces17.02.26, 06:30 \u2022 8538 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past day, the Ukrainian Defense Forces eliminated 890 Russian occupiers. Also destroyed were 614 UAVs, 71 units of automotive equipment, 4 artillery systems, 3 armored combat vehicles, and 2 tanks. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine presented fresh data on the losses of Russian invaders as of the morning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}