Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,316

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, October 1, 2025:

Fighting

• Russia’s subject seized 447 quadrate kilometres (172.6 quadrate miles) of territory from Ukraine successful September. Analysis by the United States-based Institute for the Study of War shows that it’s slowing down from a caller highest successful July erstwhile it seized 634sq km (244.8 quadrate miles).
• Russian shelling adjacent the municipality of Slavutych chopped outer powerfulness to the decommissioned Chornobyl powerfulness works connected Wednesday.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to orchestrate a atomic incident, arsenic outer powerfulness is besides needed for a caller containment unit.
• The shelling besides led to much than 3,000 radical losing powerfulness successful the adjacent Chernihiv region.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Zelenskyy volition conscionable 50 heads of state, authorities and European Union leaders successful Copenhagen connected Thursday.
• Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov met his North Korean counterpart, No Kwang Chol, connected Wednesday, according to Russian authorities media.
• French navy unit boarded an lipid tanker linked to Russia’s shadiness fleet and arrested 2 elder unit members. The vas was antecedently linked to drone flights implicit Denmark.
• The US volition proviso Ukraine with quality to deed long-range targets wrong Russia, according to a study successful The Wall Street Journal citing US officials. Washington has asked NATO allies to bash the same.
• Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Europe is facing the top information situation since the extremity of World War II, and it indispensable measurement up its effect to Russian hybrid warfare during a gathering with EU leaders.
• A Polish tribunal said a Ukrainian nationalist arrested successful transportation with the Nord Stream state pipeline detonation indispensable enactment successful custody until a determination tin beryllium made astir his transportation to Germany, wherever helium is wanted for suspected sabotage.

Economy

• European leaders connected Wednesday discussed whether to usage frozen Russian assets to money a caller 140 cardinal euros ($164bn) indebtedness to Kyiv. Most of the assets are frozen successful Belgium.
• Russian regulators person again blocked the merchantability of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, the largest lender inactive operating successful Russia without sanctions, the Reuters quality bureau reported, citing 2 radical acquainted with the matter.
• The Group of Seven says it volition enactment unit connected countries that proceed to bargain Russian lipid oregon assistance Moscow to circumvent restrictions.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said US President Donald Trump had not told him to halt buying Russian oil, arsenic demanded by the second from NATO members.