Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,339

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Here are the cardinal events from time 1,339 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Published On 25 Oct 2025

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, October 25, 2025:

Fighting

Ukrainian National Police reported that a antheral detonated a grenade connected a bid presumption level successful Ovruch metropolis successful Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, sidesplitting 3 people, arsenic good arsenic himself, and injuring 12 others. The 3 radical killed were each women. Police did not accidental if the attack, which occurred adjacent Ukraine’s borderline with Belarus, was connected to Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.
Russian shelling killed 2 radical and damaged 23 flat buildings successful the Shumenskyi neighbourhood of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the Ukrinform quality tract reported.
Ukrainian shelling killed 2 radical successful Oleshky, successful a Russian-occupied portion of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Russia’s TASS quality bureau reported, citing the area’s Moscow-installed governor, Volodymyr Saldo.
Russian forces seized the colony of Dronivka successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, TASS reported, citing the Russian defence ministry.
Russian forces changeable down 111 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the aboriginal hours of Friday, TASS reported, citing Russia’s Ministry of Defence.
The British Ministry of Defence reports that North Korean “uncrewed aerial strategy [UAS] operators” are said to beryllium assisting Russian forces to people Ukrainian positions successful Ukraine’s Sumy portion with rockets, according to an “intelligence update” shared connected societal media, citing Ukraine’s General Staff.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced that France volition supply “additional Aster missiles, caller grooming programmes, and caller Mirage aircraft” to Ukraine successful the coming days, France’s Le Monde paper reports.
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told the Politico quality outlet that Russia presents a “permanent threat” to European security, and United States President Donald Trump should proviso Ukraine with weapons, including long-range Tomahawk missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called connected allies to authorisation each Russian lipid companies, aft the US imposed new sanctions against Russian lipid giants Lukoil and Rosneft.
“Sanctions that deed Russian lipid – Russian lipid infrastructure, Russian lipid companies – are a large step, and I convey President Trump and each our partners who are implementing this,” Zelenskyy said astatine a quality league successful London, unneurotic with different “coalition of the willing” members.
Dick Schoof, premier curate of the Netherlands, agreed with Zelenskyy, saying: “It volition beryllium bully if the European Union [EU] were to transcript the US-UK authorisation against Lukoil and Rosneft.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s peculiar envoy Kirill Dmitriev said the sanctions were “not specified a large issue” for Russia, since they volition apt besides summation lipid prices, meaning that “Russia volition beryllium conscionable selling little lipid astatine a higher price”.
In an interrogation with CNN, Dmitriev besides said that a gathering betwixt Trump and President Putin “will happen”, but “probably astatine a aboriginal date”.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said determination was “absolute clarity” during Friday’s “coalition of the willing” gathering that advancement connected utilizing frozen Russian assets to enactment Ukraine indispensable beryllium realised “within a abbreviated timetable”.

NATO subordinate Lithuania closed its 2 biggest airports and unopen crossings connected its borderline with Belarus aft helium upwind balloons drifted into its territory.
Croatian lawmakers voted to reintroduce mandatory subject service in effect to planetary conflicts, including Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.