Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,325

Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,325 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Printed On 11 Oct 2025

Right here is how issues stand on Saturday, October 11, 2025:

Preventing

Greater than 450 Russian drones and 30 missiles focused Ukrainian vitality infrastructure by the early hours of Friday morning in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as a “cynical and calculated assault” that injured a minimum of 20 folks nationwide.
All through Friday, restore crews raced to revive energy to greater than 725,000 households in Kyiv and different cities amid widespread outages.
In a video message discussing the assaults, Zelenskyy stated Russian President Vladimir Putin was “clearly profiting from the second” as world leaders give attention to implementing a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
Zelenskyy individually informed reporters that Russia intentionally waited for dangerous climate earlier than launching its assault, with inclement situations lowering the effectivity of Ukraine’s air defences by 20 to 30 %.
Russian forces killed three overseas troopers preventing on behalf of Ukraine close to Otradnoye, a village in northeastern Ukraine, the place Russian troops claimed to have taken management earlier this week, Russia’s state TASS information company reported.
Ukraine’s navy stated it struck Russia greater than 70 instances final month, lowering oil refining within the nation by greater than 21 %.

The “E3” leaders of Germany, France and the UK condemned Russia’s “escalatory” assaults in opposition to Ukraine’s nationwide infrastructure, promising to extend strain on Russia as Putin “continues his stalling ways and abhorrent assaults in response to peace talks”.
The leaders added they have been “able to progress in direction of utilizing, in a coordinated approach, the worth of the immobilised Russian sovereign belongings to assist Ukraine’s armed forces” with a purpose to strain Russia to barter.
Throughout a three-day go to to Tajikistan, Russia’s Putin informed reporters he remained “dedicated to the dialogue that passed off in Anchorage”, referring to his Alaska summit with United States President Donald Trump in August.
Putin’s feedback have been a pointy reversal from these of Russia’s Deputy International Minister Sergey Ryabkov earlier this week, who stated that “highly effective momentum” for peace talks has been misplaced since August.
US First Girl Melania Trump stated she and Putin are discussing the repatriation of kids caught up within the battle, with some already returned to their households and extra anticipated to be reunited quickly.

Zelenskyy stated he had spoken with a number of leaders in gentle of Russia’s in a single day strikes – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz – and thanked all three for his or her assist.
Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and present deputy chairman of the Russian Safety Council, visited North Korea for the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the ruling Staff’ Social gathering of Korea. Russia and North Korea signed a mutual defence treaty final yr, and Pyongyang has despatched hundreds of troops and huge portions of weapons to assist Moscow’s battle in opposition to Kyiv.
Putin informed reporters that Trump “does quite a bit for peace” and praised the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Trump rapidly reposted a clip of Putin’s feedback about his peace efforts to Reality Social with a notice of due to the Russian chief.

Ukraine and the Netherlands signed a memorandum of understanding for the co-production of drones. Amsterdam has supplied nearly $9bn in assist to Ukraine all through the battle, based on Ukraine’s International Ministry.
European Union’s overseas coverage chief Kaja Kallas said the EU should search a “widespread European imaginative and prescient for defence”, and that Russia should be prevented from profitable its battle in opposition to Ukraine.
Putin stated that Russia is developing new weapons of deterrence, and famous that it’s “not a giant deal” for Moscow if the US declines to increase the warhead limits set out in a nuclear arms treaty that expires subsequent yr.