Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,345

Here is however things basal connected Friday, October 31, 2025:

Fighting

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces took power of the villages of Krasnohirske successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia portion and Sadove successful the Kharkiv region, Russian authorities quality agencies reported.
• Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles astatine Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure and different targets connected Thursday and successful the aboriginal hours of Friday, forcing nationwide powerfulness restrictions and sidesplitting 7 people.
• The victims see 1 idiosyncratic successful a colony southbound of Ukraine’s southeastern concern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia who was killed successful a Russian drone strike.
• Regional officials said 2 men were besides killed successful Russian attacks connected Zaporizhzhia itself, portion a seven-year-old miss from the cardinal Vinnytsia portion died successful infirmary from injuries sustained successful the attacks.
• Prosecutors successful the Donetsk portion said Russian attacks connected dwellings successful the metropolis of Kramatorsk killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured three.
• In Sumy, a metropolis adjacent the bluish borderline with Russia, the determination politician wrote connected Telegram that 10 Russian drones attacked the metropolis aboriginal connected Friday. He said 2 radical were injured erstwhile 2 flat buildings were hit, and pictures posted online showed respective apartments ablaze.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video code that a weaponry onslaught connected a thermal powerfulness works successful Sloviansk successful eastbound Donetsk portion killed 2 radical and injured a fig of others.
• Zelenskyy added that Russia launched much than 650 drones and 50 missiles successful the attacks. Most of the drones were neutralised and two-thirds of the missiles were downed, helium said.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko accused Moscow of targeting Ukrainian radical and powerfulness supplies arsenic the acold wintertime months approach. “Its extremity is to plunge Ukraine into darkness. Ours is to sphere the light,” Svyrydenko said.

Europe

• Polish MiG-29 combatant craft intercepted a Russian reconnaissance level implicit the Baltic Sea successful the 2nd specified incidental this week, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
• Poland said it would not reopen much borderline crossings with adjacent Russian state Belarus until astatine slightest mid-November successful a determination intended to amusement solidarity with chap NATO subordinate Lithuania amid heightened information concerns.
• Poland closed its borderline with Belarus six weeks agone due to the fact that of what Warsaw said were “very aggressive” Russia-led subject exercises connected Belarusian territory, days aft 21 Russian drones entered Polish airspace. Lithuania unopen its onshore borderline with Belarus this week successful effect to airspace disruptions caused by smuggling balloons and said it would stay closed until the extremity of November.
• A German of Russian taste inheritance was convicted of spying and readying arson attacks connected subject installations and railways successful Germany connected behalf of Russia and sentenced to six years successful prison. A tribunal successful the Bavarian authorities capital, Munich, gave 2 accomplices suspended sentences of 12 and six months.

Peace talks

• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban volition conscionable United States President Donald Trump connected November 7 successful Washington, wherever helium aims to sermon a way to a US-Russia gathering successful his state and question exemption from US vigor sanctions, Orban’s main of unit said.
• Russian legislator Vladimir Dzhabarov said Trump should negociate with Russia, alternatively than imposing sanctions connected it, according to authorities quality bureau RIA Novosti.

Nuclear weapons

• The Kremlin said Russia’s trial of a nuclear-powered rocket and a nuclear-powered torpedo were not atomic weapons tests, aft President Trump suggested the United States would resume atomic weapons testing to the aforesaid levels arsenic its rivals. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned that if immoderate state tested a atomic weapon, past Russia would too.
• Andrei Kartapolov, a elder Russian lawmaker, said atomic investigating by the US volition pb to a instrumentality to an epoch of unpredictability and unfastened confrontation, RIA reported.