Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,329

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, October 15, 2025:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched almighty glide bombs and drones against Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, successful overnight attacks, hitting the city’s main hospital, wounding 7 people, and forcing the evacuation of 50 patients, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that its forces person taken power of the colony of Balahan successful the Donetsk portion successful eastbound Ukraine.
• A convoy of United Nations vehicles carrying assistance supplies came nether occurrence from Russian forces adjacent the municipality of Bilozerka successful the Kherson region, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, describing the onslaught arsenic “utterly unacceptable”. There were nary injuries successful the onslaught connected 4 UN trucks, 2 of which were acceptable connected occurrence by remote-controlled drones.
• Local authorities person ordered the evacuation of families from dozens of villages adjacent the all-but-destroyed northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Kupiansk, citing the “worsening information situation”.
• Oleh Syniehubov, politician of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, said that a full of 409 families with 601 children were told to permission 27 localities. Another authoritative successful the affected country aboriginal told nationalist broadcaster Suspilne that the database of localities to beryllium evacuated by families had been expanded to 40.
• Russia volition beryllium capable to deploy astir 2 cardinal subject reservists to combat successful Ukraine if needed nether amendments to a instrumentality apt to beryllium backed by the Russian parliament, according to reports.
• Power outages were reported successful the Ukrainian superior and different regions precocious connected Tuesday owed to a web overload and the aftermath of Russian attacks, the Kyiv City State Administration said. Power was chopped successful 3 cardinal Kyiv districts connected the westbound slope of the Dnipro River moving done the city. Ukrenergo, which operates Ukraine’s high-voltage lines, said that lingering problems from Russian attacks connected the country’s vigor strategy had triggered outages successful regions crossed northern, cardinal and southeastern Ukraine.
• Work is to statesman this week to reconstruct outer powerfulness links to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness station, which has been moving connected exigency diesel generators for 3 weeks. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s imperishable typical to planetary organisation based successful Vienna, told the Russian authorities quality bureau RIA that it was “vital to hold connected a section ceasefire successful areas wherever the repair enactment is to beryllium carried out”.

Military aid

• NATO defence ministers volition conscionable connected Wednesday to effort to drum up much subject enactment for Ukraine amid a crisp driblet successful deliveries of weapons and ammunition to the war-ravaged state successful caller months.
• European subject assistance to Ukraine declined sharply this summer, contempt a caller NATO inaugural successful which subordinate countries bought US weapons and transferred them to Kyiv, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy said.
• The United Kingdom has delivered much than 85,000 subject drones to Ukraine implicit the past six months, Secretary of State for Defence John Healey has said, according to the Press Association.
• German Federal Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil said his state would proceed to “financially unafraid Ukraine’s defence capabilities for the adjacent fewer years”, portion besides moving with the US to “massively summation unit connected [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to extremity his brutal warfare of aggression”.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stripped the politician of the larboard metropolis of Odesa, Gennadiy Trukhanov, of his Ukrainian citizenship aft it was discovered helium held Russian citizenship. Trukhanov could present look deportation. Trukhanov denied the claim, saying, “I americium a national of Ukraine”, and said helium would situation the determination successful Ukraine’s Supreme Court and, if necessary, the European Court of Human Rights.
• Zelenskyy said helium would name a subject medication to govern Odesa, citing unresolved information concerns. Ukraine prohibits dual citizenship with Russia, and Trukhanov has agelong faced allegations of holding both.
• A Kyiv authorities root told the AFP quality bureau that Ukrainian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin had besides been stripped of citizenship. Polunin has been a vocal protagonist of the Russian president. Pro-Kremlin person Oleg Tsaryov, who survived an assassination effort successful 2023, was besides among those who had their Ukrainian citizenship revoked, according to AFP.
• United States President Donald Trump said helium was “very disappointed” with Russian person Putin successful beforehand of a planned sojourn by Zelenskyy to Washington, DC, aboriginal this week. “I don’t cognize wherefore helium continues with this war,” Trump said of Putin.
• Zelenskyy is acceptable to conscionable Trump successful Washington, DC, connected Friday, wherever the 2 volition sermon Ukraine’s aerial defence and long-range onslaught capabilities.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said she was focusing connected Russian attacks connected her country’s vigor grid successful talks this week with US officials.
• Svyrydenko described the priorities of her sojourn to Washington, DC, arsenic “energy, sanctions and the improvement of practice with the USA successful caller ways that tin fortify some our countries”.
• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had opened a transgression lawsuit against exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and different salient Kremlin critics, accusing them of plotting to violently prehend power. The FSB said it was investigating each 22 members of the Russian Antiwar Committee – a radical of Russian politicians, businesspeople, journalists, lawyers, artists and academics each based extracurricular the country, who reason Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Regional security

• Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski warned that Europe indispensable beryllium prepared for Russia to onslaught heavy into the region, calling it “irresponsible” not to physique defences specified arsenic a “drone wall” connected its eastbound flank.
• German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has accused China of undermining the planetary rules-based bid done its progressively assertive policies successful Asia and its enactment for Russia.
• Wadephul besides criticised Russia, saying Moscow is investigating NATO’s resolve, violating European Union and NATO airspace, spying connected Germany’s captious infrastructure and seeking to power nationalist sermon with propaganda and disinformation.
• Trump threatened commercialized penalties, including tariffs, against Spain, saying helium was unhappy with its refusal to rise defence spending to 5 percent of gross home merchandise (GDP) and calling the determination disrespectful to NATO.
• Pro-Russian hackers brought down the German government’s nationalist procurement portal, the Sddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) paper reported connected Tuesday. The cyberattack rendered this important interface betwixt the authorities and businesses inaccessible for astir a week, the study said.
• Sweden volition acceptable up its archetypal exigency atom stocks successful the northbound of the country, a portion that risks being isolated successful a conflict, the authorities said. In its 2026 budget, Stockholm plans to put 575 cardinal kronor ($60m) to acceptable up the atom reserves. Sweden revived its “total defence” strategy successful 2015 pursuing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and much measures were introduced aft Moscow’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful 2022.

Trade

• Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine is atrocious for US businesses, which person heavy invested successful Europe and whose profits are affected by the uncertainty that Moscow’s aggression creates, European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said. Dombrovskis said that successful 2023, US-owned assets successful Europe were worthy an estimated $19.2 trillion, oregon astir 64 percent of each US firm overseas assets globally.