Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,342

Here are the cardinal events from time 1,342 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, October 28, 2025:

Fighting

• Russian attacks connected Ukraine’s confederate Zaporizhia killed a 44-year-old antheral and wounded respective others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said connected Monday, arsenic the decease toll from different assaults connected Sunday continued to rise.
• Ukrainian officials said the attacks connected Sunday killed 2 radical successful the eastbound Donetsk portion and a 69-year-old antheral successful the bluish Sumy region. Fifteen others, including 2 children, were wounded successful Sumy, constabulary determination said.
• Ukraine’s subject quality (HUR) claimed the sidesplitting of Lieutenant Vasily Marzoev, the lad of a Russian general, utilizing a guided aerial bomb. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a Russian minibus successful the colony of Pogar successful the Bryansk portion killed the operator and injured 5 passengers, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reported, citing Governor Alexander Bogomaz.

• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces seized the Ukrainian colony of Yehorivka successful the Dnipropetrovsk region. However, the Ukrainian quality bureau Ukrinform reported that Ukrainian forces had cleared Russian troops retired of the village. Neither assertion could beryllium independently verified by Al Jazeera.

• Russia’s Defence Ministry besides said its forces captured the villages of Novomykolaivka and Privolnoye successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, according to TASS.

• TASS besides reported the ministry arsenic saying that Russian forces changeable down 350 Ukrainian drones, 2 guided missiles and 7 rocket launchers successful the past 24 hours.
• A study by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry connected Ukraine recovered that Russian drone attacks were utilized arsenic “part of a coordinated argumentation to thrust retired civilians from [Ukrainian] territories”, amounting “to the transgression against humanity of forcible transportation of population”.
• The study described civilians who were chased implicit agelong distances by drones with mounted cameras, and sometimes attacked with occurrence bombs oregon explosives portion seeking shelter.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump said that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, should extremity the warfare successful Ukraine alternatively of investigating nuclear-powered missiles, adding that Washington had a atomic submarine positioned disconnected Russia’s coast. The comments came a time aft Putin said that Russia had successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile.

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said determination was thing successful the trial of the rocket that should strain relations with Washington, and that Russia was guided by its ain nationalist interests.
• Norway’s subject quality work said that Russia’s trial of the Burevestnik rocket was launched from the Barents Sea archipelago of Novaya Zemlya.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the US-based Axios quality outlet that Kyiv and its allies person agreed to enactment connected a ceasefire program successful the coming 10 days, pursuing Trump’s caller connection to halt the warfare astatine the existent lines.
• Putin signed a instrumentality connected Monday terminating an already defunct plutonium disposal statement with the US that aimed to forestall some sides from gathering much atomic weapons.

• North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui met Putin astatine the Kremlin connected Monday to sermon strengthening practice with Russia, North Korean authorities media KCNA reported connected Tuesday.

• “Many aboriginal projects to perpetually fortify and develop” the bilateral narration were discussed during the meeting, KCNA said, with Choe besides conveying North Korean person Kim Jong Un’s “brotherly regard” to Putin. The Russian leader, successful turn, asked Choe to archer Kim that “everything was going to plan” during the meeting.

• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban volition sermon US sanctions connected Russian lipid companies, among different issues, erstwhile helium meets Trump successful Washington adjacent week, Hungary’s overseas minister, Peter Szijjarto, said connected Monday.

Regional security

• Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said connected Monday that her state volition statesman to sprout down smuggler balloons crossing the borderline from Belarus, a adjacent Russian ally, aft the balloons repeatedly interrupted the Baltic nation’s aerial traffic.
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that helium balloons implicit Lithuania were a “provocation” and “a hybrid threat”, adding successful a station connected X that the balloons are different crushed to accelerate the European Union’s Eastern Flank Watch and European drone defence initiatives.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s subject quality published a database detailing the origins of 68 overseas components utilized successful Russian missiles and different weapons, which it says came from China, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the US.