Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,321

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, October 7, 2025:

Fighting

• The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that “two rounds of shelling struck astir 1.25 km” [less than a mile] from the perimeter of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant connected Monday afternoon.
• IAEA main Rafael Grossi warned the attacks came arsenic the works has been moving connected exigency diesel generators for astir 2 weeks aft losing its outer powerfulness source. Russia and Ukraine person accused each other of being down caller attacks adjacent the atomic powerfulness station.
• Ukrainian drones deed the Feodosia lipid terminal successful Russian-occupied Crimea connected Monday nighttime causing a “large-scale fire”, Ukraine’s General Staff said successful a station connected Telegram.
• A Russian onslaught deed the extortion of a perinatal centre successful Sumy, causing it to drawback fire, the caput of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said successful a station connected Telegram. The babies, patients and employees had evacuated to a weaponry structure earlier the attack, Yermak added.
• Russian shelling killed 2 radical and injured 5 others successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv, the region’s politician Oleh Syniehubov said successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russian forces launched drone attacks, aerial strikes and artillery shelling connected Ukraine’s Kherson region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring 3 others, determination politician Oleksandr Prokudin wrote connected Telegram.
• A Russian onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 11 successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, politician Ivan Fedorov wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• A Ukrainian rocket onslaught killed 2 radical successful Russia’s Belgorod region, politician Vyacheslav Gladkov said, according to Russia’s state-run TASS quality agency.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic successful Russian-occupied Luhansk, the Russian installed determination authorities reported successful a station connected Telegram.

Regional security

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters “there is nary crushed to blasted Russia” for recent drone sightings crossed Europe, describing the “whole story” arsenic “really alternatively strange, to accidental the precise least”.
• Peskov besides said that “many politicians successful Europe… are present inclined to blasted Russia for everything”, and that they bash truthful “unreasonably, indiscriminately”, aft German Chancellor Friedrich Merz precocious said helium assumed Russia was down the reported drone flights.
• A Polish tribunal ruled connected Monday that the Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany implicit his alleged engagement successful explosions which damaged the Nord Stream state pipeline indispensable stay successful custody for different 40 days, his lawyer said.

Politics and diplomacy

• Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo volition sojourn Washington DC connected Thursday and Friday this week for a gathering with US President Donald Trump, the Finnish authorities said connected Monday.

Military aid

• Trump responded to a question from reporters connected Ukraine asking the US to merchantability long-range Tomahawk missiles to immoderate European countries, with the US President responding: “I would inquire immoderate questions. I’m not looking to escalate that war.”
• Trump’s comments travel a time aft a video was released of Russian President Vladimir Putin saying the merchantability of Tomahawk missiles would destruct advancement made successful Moscow’s narration with Washington.
• Czech President Petr Pavel urged governmental parties to proceed supplying ammunition to Ukraine aft populists that person pledged to scrap the strategy won a caller predetermination successful his country.
• “If we were to trim oregon adjacent extremity this support, we would chiefly harm ourselves, but ending this enactment would besides person a antagonistic interaction connected Ukraine, wherever galore much would suffer their lives,” Pavel said.