Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,343

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, October 29, 2025:

Fighting

• Russia launched 396 attacks connected 15 settlements successful Ukraine’s confederate Zaporizhia region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring 3 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said connected Tuesday.
• Russian forces besides launched drone attacks, aerial strikes and artillery shelling crossed Ukraine’s Kherson region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and wounding six, the caput of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, said connected Tuesday.
• A pistillate who was wounded successful a Russian onslaught connected the Kherson portion connected Monday died arsenic a effect of her injuries, Prokudin added.
• The caput of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said connected nationalist tv that lone 561 residents stay successful the metropolis of Kupiansk, successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, arsenic of midday connected Tuesday. Thousands of radical person been evacuated from the city, which had a colonisation of much than 26,000 anterior to the war, arsenic Russian forces advanced.
• Ukrainian attacks killed an 85-year-old pistillate successful the Russian-occupied portion of Ukraine’s Kherson, according to a section official.
• The Russian-installed Governor of Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, said that Ukrainian attacks connected powerfulness lines and substations successful the portion had near 5,800 radical without electricity.
• In Russia, Ukrainian forces sent drones towards Moscow for a 3rd consecutive night, disrupting aerial postulation astir the Russian capital, authorities determination said precocious connected Tuesday.
• Ukrainian forces killed a idiosyncratic successful the Russian borderline portion of Bryansk, according to a section official.
• Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik told the TASS authorities quality bureau that Ukrainian attacks connected Russian regions successful the past week killed astir 20 people, including a child.
• Russian forces changeable down 124 Ukrainian drones successful a 24-hour period, TASS reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Tuesday that Kyiv was acceptable for bid talks with Russia, but it would not withdraw its troops from further territory archetypal as Moscow has demanded.
• He besides said that Ukrainian and European officials would conscionable astatine the extremity of the week to sermon the details of a ceasefire plan.
• “It is not a program to extremity the war. First of all, a ceasefire is needed,” Zelenskyy said. “This is simply a program to statesman diplomacy… Our advisers volition conscionable successful the coming days; we agreed connected Friday oregon Saturday. They volition sermon the details of this plan.”
• The Ukrainian person besides urged United States President Donald Trump to unit Chinese person Xi Jinping to extremity his enactment for Russia erstwhile the 2 leaders conscionable aboriginal this week.
• He added that Ukraine needs European fiscal enactment to proceed its defence against Russian forces for different 2 oregon 3 years.
• Germany’s system minister, Katherina Reiche, told Reuters that the US authorities has provided written assurances that the German concern of Russia’s Rosneft institution would beryllium exempt from caller lipid sanctions due to the fact that the assets are nary longer nether Russian control.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin acknowledges Trump’s statements urging different countries to halt buying Russian oil, but that Russia’s partners volition marque their ain decisions connected whether to proceed buying its vigor products.
• Peskov besides claimed that Russia cannot measure the presumption of bid negotiations with Ukraine due to the fact that Kyiv has enactment them connected hold, and is unwilling to reply questions posed by Russia.
• Many Indian refiners person paused caller orders for Russian lipid since the US’s latest sanctions connected Moscow, according to Reuters, but the state-run Indian Oil said it would not halt buying Russian lipid arsenic agelong arsenic it is complying with sanctions.
• “Russian crude is not sanctioned. It is the entities and the shipping lines which person got sanctions,” Anuj Jain, Indian Oil’s concern director, said. “Today, if idiosyncratic comes to maine with a non-sanctioned entity, and the headdress is being complied with, and the shipping is OK, past I volition proceed to bargain it,” helium said.
• The Indian state-owned warplane shaper Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd said connected Tuesday that it signed an archetypal statement to physique civilian commuter craft with the United Aircraft Corporation, a Russian aerospace steadfast taxable to Western sanctions.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy said that Ukraine, which has importantly accrued its accumulation of weapons during the war, is readying to statesman controlled exports of arms from adjacent month.
• US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker told Bloomberg that helium expects $12bn to $15bn dollars volition beryllium raised to bargain weapons for Ukraine into 2026.
• “It’s going to beryllium US weapons…  And I deliberation this is different illustration of Europe stepping up, of our NATO allies present connected the continent, stepping up and supporting Ukraine,” helium said, referring to the Trump administration’s determination towards ensuring European countries buy US weapons to enactment Ukraine, alternatively than the US authorities providing them.