Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,334

Here is however things basal connected Monday, October 20, 2025:

Fighting

• The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said successful a station connected Facebook that it struck a state processing works successful Russia’s Orenburg region, causing explosions and “a large-scale fire”.
• Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy said that the Orenburg state processing plant, the largest installation of its benignant successful the world, had been forced to suspend its intake of state from Kazakhstan pursuing the Ukrainian drone attack.
• Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev had said earlier connected Sunday that the plant, which is tally by state-owned state elephantine Gazprom, had been partially damaged, and that the drone onslaught caused a occurrence astatine a store astatine the facility. The blaze was aboriginal enactment out, Russian media outlet Kommersant reported, citing the operator.
• Ukraine’s General Staff besides said that its forces deed the Novokuybyshevsk lipid refinery successful Russia’s Samara region.
• Russian forces launched a “massive” onslaught connected a ember excavation successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, backstage Ukrainian vigor institution DTEK wrote successful a station connected Telegram, adding that 192 mineworkers, who were underground during the incident, were being evacuated.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it changeable down 323 Ukrainian drones, 2 guided bombs, and 3 rocket launchers successful a 24-hour period, according to Russia’s authorities TASS quality agency.
• Russia launched much than 3,270 onslaught drones, 1,370 guided aerial bombs, and astir 50 missiles against Ukraine successful the past week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote successful a station connected Facebook.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump pressed Zelenskyy to springiness up territory to Russia during a White House meeting connected Friday that near the Ukrainian delegation disappointed, Reuters reported, citing 2 unidentified officials.
• The Financial Times besides reported that the gathering was tense, saying that Trump told Zelenskyy that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “destroy” Ukraine if Kyiv did not judge Moscow’s presumption for ending the war.
• Polish President Donald Tusk wrote connected X connected Sunday that “none of america should enactment unit connected Zelenskyy erstwhile it comes to territorial concessions”.
• Zelenskyy told NBC that much unit is needed connected Putin, since the Russian person is “more beardown than Hamas”.
• The Ukrainian president besides said that helium should beryllium included successful upcoming talks betwixt Putin and Trump successful Hungary.
• In an interrogation connected Fox News connected Sunday morning, Trump again indicated that helium was not consenting to nonstop much arms to Ukraine, saying: “We person to retrieve 1 thing. We request them for ourselves too. You know, we can’t springiness each of our weapons to Ukraine.”
• Germany’s Federal Foreign Office announced that it was temporarily recalling its envoy to Georgia, saying successful a station connected X that the country’s “leadership has for months been agitating against the EU, Germany and the German ambassador personally”.