Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,335

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, October 21, 2025:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched respective attacks connected Ukraine’s Kherson region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring 3 others, the Kherson Regional State Administration wrote successful a station connected Telegram.

• A Russian onslaught connected the Ukrainian borderline portion of Chernihiv chopped disconnected powerfulness to parts of bluish Ukraine, including the main municipality extracurricular the decommissioned Chernobyl atomic powerfulness station, officials said, according to the Reuters quality agency.

• The 7th Corps of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces reported successful a station connected Facebook that a Russian battle radical killed respective Ukrainians during an onslaught connected the Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk successful caller days, without providing further details of the fig of radical killed oregon erstwhile the onslaught occurred.
• Russian forces launched an onslaught connected a ember enrichment program successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, backstage Ukrainian vigor institution DTEK wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• In the Russian borderline portion of Belgorod, 2 radical were killed successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected the colony of Yasnye Zori, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote successful a station connected Telegram.

Politics and diplomacy

• Speaking astatine the White House connected Monday, United States President Donald Trump said of Ukrainians’ prospects successful the war: “They could inactive triumph it”, but added, “I don’t deliberation they will”.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, and discussed “advancing a durable solution to the Russia-Ukraine war, successful enactment with Trump’s vision,” according a summary of the telephone released by the US State Department.
• Russian lawmakers person drafted a instrumentality mandating beingness imprisonment for anyone involving minors successful sabotage and lowering the threshold for transgression work for specified crimes to 14 years old, citing rising threats from Ukraine and NATO countries.

Budapest talks

• French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters successful Slovenia that Ukraine and European countries should beryllium included successful upcoming talks betwixt Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Hungary.
• “From the infinitesimal they sermon the destiny of Ukraine, the Ukrainians should beryllium astatine the table. From the infinitesimal they sermon what impacts the information of Europeans, the Europeans should beryllium astatine the table,” Macron said.
• Macron besides said that Ukraine’s allies, known arsenic “the conjugation of the willing”, are readying their ain gathering successful London connected Friday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy present.
• Speaking to reporters connected Monday, Zelenskyy said helium is hoping to beryllium invited to Budapest, whether the invitation is “in a format wherever we conscionable arsenic 3 or, arsenic it’s called, shuttle diplomacy”.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy said that his state is inactive “working with the United States” to unafraid “the indispensable fig of Patriot systems”, saying that helium spoke with weapons companies connected a caller sojourn to Washington, DC, and that enactment is needed astatine the “political level successful Washington”.