Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,330

Here are the cardinal events from time 1,330 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, October 16, 2025:

Fighting

• The Russian Ministry of Defence has announced that its troops had pushed Ukrainian forces retired of 2 settlements of Oleksiivka successful Dnipropetrovsk portion and Novopavlivka successful Donetsk region.

• The Ukrainian vigor ministry has said the country’s powerfulness infrastructure has been deed with drones, knocking retired energy supplies successful respective areas including successful the cardinal Dnipropetrovsk region.

Weapons and military

• Kyiv volition request up to $20bn successful subject assistance adjacent twelvemonth from NATO countries, Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal said. The assistance volition assistance Ukraine physique 10 cardinal drones successful 2026, according to the Reuters quality agency.

• German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has announced that Berlin volition concern a US weapons bundle for Ukraine amounting to $500m, arsenic Western allies question to fortify Kyiv’s defences successful the ongoing warfare with Russia. Speaking astatine a gathering successful Brussels, Pistorius said the bundle includes aerial defence systems arsenic good arsenic Patriot missiles, among others.

• Russia’s Federal Security Service main said that Moscow has nary uncertainty astir NATO’s information services’ engagement successful incidents with alleged Russian drones implicit EU territory, RIA cited him arsenic saying. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen projected a “drone wall” aft astir 20 Russian drones allegedly entered the airspace of EU and NATO subordinate Poland past month.

Politics and diplomacy

• The US and its allies would “impose costs connected Russia for its continued aggression” if the warfare in Ukraine does not travel to an extremity soon, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared during a gathering astatine the NATO headquarters.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Serhiy Lysak arsenic the politician of the Black Sea larboard metropolis Odesa, a time aft revoking the citizenship of the erstwhile mayor, Gennadiy Trukhanov, prompting his automatic dismissal. Trulkhanov allegedly holds a Russian passport, a assertion that helium denies.

Energy and economy

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has rejected US President Donald Trump’s informing of a collapse of the Russian economy, saying Moscow has a “sufficient and sizeable borderline of safety” and was beardown capable to let President Vladimir Putin to execute his goals.

• EU Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told the AFP quality bureau that the bloc volition impulse G7 partners to see tapping immobilised Russian assets successful aiding Ukraine, arsenic concern ministers of the radical conscionable successful Washington this week.
• Repairs are acceptable to statesman “soon” to reconstruct the powerfulness proviso to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic plant, according to Rafael Grossi, caput of the UN’s atomic watchdog IAEA. The tract has been nether the power of Russia since soon aft its penetration of Ukraine successful 2022, and it has been chopped disconnected from the Ukraine grid since September 23.

• The terms of crude lipid has risen 1 percent pursuing US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised that his state would halt its acquisition of lipid from Russia. According to Brent crude futures, the terms roseate 54 cents, oregon 0.87 percent, to $62.45 a tube arsenic of 04:30 GMT connected Thursday, portion US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures climbed 57 cents, oregon 0.98 percent, to $58.84.

• As portion of the US effort to enactment much unit connected Russia, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent besides told Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato that the Trump medication expects Japan to halt importing Russian energy.

• The International Monetary Fund has announced that the caput of the planetary lending institution, Kristalina Georgieva, volition beryllium visiting Ukraine, though the nonstop timing is inactive unclear. Georgieva’s sojourn comes arsenic Ukraine seeks a caller indebtedness bundle amid the ongoing war. Based connected the existent deal, Ukraine has already received $10.6bn of the $15.5bn indebtedness from the IMF.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video code that helium had discussed by telephone with Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis the anticipation of the US supplying earthy state to Ukraine.

• Ukraine’s Energy Ministry has announced that it is introducing exigency powerfulness cuts successful each but 2 regions pursuing the caller Russian attacks connected its vigor infrastructure. Earlier, Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal warned that Ukraine is facing a “very tough, precise hard winter” owed to the harm to its vigor production.