Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,325

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, October 11, 2025:

Fighting

• More than 450 Russian drones and 30 missiles targeted Ukrainian vigor infrastructure done the aboriginal hours of Friday greeting successful what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a “cynical and calculated attack” that injured astatine slightest 20 radical nationwide.
• Throughout Friday, repair crews raced to reconstruct powerfulness to much than 725,000 families successful Kyiv and different cities amid wide outages.
• In a video connection discussing the attacks, Zelenskyy said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “clearly taking vantage of the moment” arsenic satellite leaders absorption connected implementing a ceasefire statement successful Gaza.
• Zelenskyy separately told reporters that Russia deliberately waited for atrocious upwind earlier launching its assault, with inclement conditions reducing the ratio of Ukraine’s aerial defences by 20 to 30 percent.
• Russian forces killed 3 overseas soldiers warring connected behalf of Ukraine adjacent Otradnoye, a colony successful northeastern Ukraine, wherever Russian troops claimed to person taken power earlier this week, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reported.
• Ukraine’s subject said it struck Russia much than 70 times past month, decreasing lipid refining successful the state by much than 21 percent.

Peace process

• The “E3” leaders of Germany, France and the United Kingdom condemned Russia’s “escalatory” attacks against Ukraine’s nationalist infrastructure, promising to summation unit connected Russia arsenic Putin “continues his stalling tactics and abhorrent attacks successful effect to bid talks”.
• The leaders added they were “ready to advancement towards using, successful a coordinated way, the worth of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to enactment Ukraine’s equipped forces” successful bid to unit Russia to negotiate.
• During a three-day sojourn to Tajikistan, Russia’s Putin told reporters helium remained “committed to the treatment that took spot successful Anchorage”, referring to his Alaska acme with United States President Donald Trump successful August.
• Putin’s comments were a crisp reversal from those of Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov earlier this week, who said that “powerful momentum” for bid talks has been mislaid since August.
• US First Lady Melania Trump said she and Putin are discussing the repatriation of children caught up successful the war, with immoderate already returned to their families and much expected to beryllium reunited soon.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy said helium had spoken with respective leaders successful airy of Russia’s overnight strikes – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz  – and thanked each 3 for their support.
• Dmitry Medvedev, erstwhile Russian president and existent lawman president of the Russian Security Council, visited North Korea for the 80th day of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. Russia and North Korea signed a mutual defence treaty past year, and Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops and immense quantities of weapons to enactment Moscow’s warfare against Kyiv.
• Putin told reporters that Trump “does a batch for peace” and praised the Gaza ceasefire deal.
• Trump rapidly reposted a clip of Putin’s comments astir his bid efforts to Truth Social with a enactment of acknowledgment to the Russian leader.

Regional security

• Ukraine and the Netherlands signed a memorandum of knowing for the co-production of drones. Amsterdam has provided astir $9bn successful enactment to Ukraine passim the war, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry.
• European Union’s overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said the EU indispensable question a “common European imaginativeness for defence”, and that Russia indispensable beryllium prevented from winning its warfare against Ukraine.
• Putin said that Russia is processing caller weapons of deterrence, and noted that it’s “not a large deal” for Moscow if the US declines to widen the warhead limits acceptable retired successful a atomic arms pact that expires adjacent year.