Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,322

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Here are the cardinal events from time 1,322 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Published On 8 Oct 2025

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, October 8, 2025:

Fighting

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces person captured astir 5,000 quadrate kilometres (1,930sq miles) of Ukrainian territory truthful acold this year, and Moscow retains the strategical inaugural connected the battlefield.
Russian troops person captured the Ukrainian villages of Novovasylivka successful the southeastern Zaporizhia portion and Fedorivka successful the eastbound Donetsk region, Russia’s defence ministry said.
Russian aerial defence units destroyed 184 Ukrainian drones successful caller attacks, the RIA Novosti state-owned quality bureau reports.
Russia’s aerial defence units besides intercepted and destroyed a drone flying towards Moscow city, said Sergei Sobyanin, politician of the Russian capital.

Ukraine’s Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said Russian aerial strikes person caused “significant” harm to Ukrainian state accumulation capableness owed to the targeting of determination state infrastructure and powerfulness transmission facilities successful front-line regions.
Hrynchuk said Ukraine wants to summation imports of earthy state by 30 percent aft Russian attacks connected its state infrastructure, telling reporters she had discussed further state imports with Group of Seven (G7) subordinate states.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of utilizing lipid tankers for quality gathering and sabotage operations, and helium added that Ukraine was cooperating with its allies connected the matter.
Russia’s authorities atomic vigor institution has claimed that a Ukrainian drone attempted to onslaught a atomic works successful Russia’s Voronezh portion bordering Ukraine, but the unmanned aerial conveyance crashed into a cooling operation and caused nary harm astatine the site.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia was waiting for clarity from the United States astir the imaginable proviso of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, saying specified weapons could theoretically transportation atomic warheads and reiterated that Moscow would spot the proviso of specified weapons arsenic a superior escalation.
The Kremlin besides said it assumed for present that US President Donald Trump inactive sought a bid colony successful Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone with President Putin and said diplomatic initiatives request to summation momentum to execute a conscionable and lasting bid successful the Russia-Ukraine war, Erdogan’s bureau said.
The connection cited Erdogan arsenic saying Turkiye volition proceed to enactment for bid and said bilateral relations and determination and planetary issues were besides discussed with Putin.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she believed Trump had travel to the decision that Russia was not funny successful a bid woody with Ukraine, and that the lone mode guardant was to use pressure, proceed to enactment Ukraine, and enforce sanctions connected Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it is not successful Poland’s involvement to manus implicit a Ukrainian antheral wanted by Germany for suspected engagement successful explosions which damaged the Nord Stream state pipelines 3 years ago.
Tusk said the occupation with Nord Stream 2 was not that it was blown up but that it was built. He added that Russia built the pipelines “against the captious interests not lone of our countries, but of each of Europe”.
A Polish tribunal ruled connected Monday that the Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany implicit his alleged engagement successful the explosions, which damaged the Nord Stream state pipeline, indispensable stay successful custody for different 40 days, his lawyer said.
European Union governments person agreed to enforce limits connected the question of Russian diplomats wrong the bloc, the Financial Times reported.