Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,332

Zelenskyy congratulates Trump connected Gaza, asks for assistance ending Russia’s war

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, October 18, 2025:

Fighting

• Ukrainian shelling killed 2 adults and a 10-year-old kid successful Russian-occupied Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed politician of the region, wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russian attacks connected Ukraine’s Sumy portion killed a 38-year-old antheral and injured 4 others, the determination medication wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russian attacks besides injured astatine slightest 8 radical successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, according to section officials.
• Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces claimed a Ukrainian drone onslaught destroyed an lipid depot and a state attraction works successful Russian-occupied Crimea connected Friday night.
• The Russian-installed politician of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said that a Ukrainian drone onslaught damaged respective electrical substations successful the Russian-occupied region, according to Russia’s state-run TASS quality agency.
• Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s Chernihiv portion 68 times successful a 24-hour period, causing fires astatine a logging institution and damaging residential areas, Regional Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.
• Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called for applicable United Nations bodies to condemn the Ukrainian onslaught that killed Russian warfare analogous Ivan Zuyev and earnestly wounded his workfellow successful confederate Ukraine’s Zaporizhia portion on Thursday.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy astatine the White House connected Friday, telling reporters helium was optimistic astir ending the war. “I deliberation we person a accidental of ending the warfare rapidly if flexibility is shown,” Trump told reporters.
• Zelenskyy congratulated Trump connected his “successful ceasefire” successful the Middle East, saying that portion “Putin is not ready”, helium is assured that with Trump’s “help, we tin halt this war, and we truly request it”.
• Trump did not perpetrate to Zelenskyy’s petition for Tomahawk missiles, which are precise, long-range projectiles that Kyiv is seeking successful bid to onslaught heavy into Russia, saying doing truthful “could mean large escalation”.
• Trump besides told reporters that Zelenskyy volition “be successful touch” during upcoming negotiations successful Hungary, wherever the US president volition conscionable with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said his state would let Putin to be the planned acme with Trump successful Budapest, contempt the Russian person facing an apprehension warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Hungary is successful the process of leaving.
• Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s concern envoy, projected gathering a “US-Russia nexus via the Bering Strait” successful a station connected X, besides suggesting that the undersea passageway connecting Russia and the US could beryllium built unneurotic with billionaire Elon Musk’s The Boring Company.
• Asked astir the passageway connection connected Friday, Trump said it was “interesting”, portion Zelenskyy said: “I’m not blessed with this idea.”
• United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a telephone with Zelenskyy aft his White House meeting, wherever helium “reiterated their unwavering committedness to Ukraine successful the look of ongoing Russian aggression”, according to a summary of the telephone published by Downing Street.

Regional Security

• A Polish tribunal blocked the extradition of a Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany successful transportation with the 2022 Nord Stream state pipeline explosions.