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

Listed here are the important thing occasions from day 1,339 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.

Revealed On 25 Oct 2025

Right here is how issues stand on Saturday, October 25, 2025:

Preventing

Ukrainian Nationwide Police reported {that a} man detonated a grenade on a practice station platform in Ovruch metropolis in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr area, killing three individuals, in addition to himself, and injuring 12 others. The three individuals killed had been all ladies. Police didn’t say if the assault, which occurred close to Ukraine’s border with Belarus, was related to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Russian shelling killed two individuals and broken 23 condo buildings within the Shumenskyi neighbourhood of Ukraine’s Kherson area, the Ukrinform information web site reported.
Ukrainian shelling killed two individuals in Oleshky, in a Russian-occupied a part of Ukraine’s Kherson area, Russia’s TASS information company reported, citing the world’s Moscow-installed governor, Volodymyr Saldo.
Russian forces seized the village of Dronivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, TASS reported, citing the Russian defence ministry.
Russian forces shot down 111 Ukrainian drones in a single day and into the early hours of Friday, TASS reported, citing Russia’s Ministry of Defence.
The British Ministry of Defence reviews that North Korean “uncrewed aerial system [UAS] operators” are stated to be aiding Russian forces to focus on Ukrainian positions in Ukraine’s Sumy area with rockets, in keeping with an “intelligence replace” shared on social media, citing Ukraine’s Basic Employees.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron introduced that France will present “extra Aster missiles, new coaching programmes, and new Mirage plane” to Ukraine within the coming days, France’s Le Monde newspaper reviews.
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo instructed the Politico information outlet that Russia presents a “everlasting menace” to European safety, and United States President Donald Trump ought to provide Ukraine with weapons, together with long-range Tomahawk missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on allies to sanction all Russian oil firms, after the US imposed new sanctions in opposition to Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft.
“Sanctions that hit Russian oil – Russian oil infrastructure, Russian oil firms – are an enormous step, and I thank President Trump and all our companions who’re implementing this,” Zelenskyy stated at a information convention in London, along with different “coalition of the prepared” members.
Dick Schoof, prime minister of the Netherlands, agreed with Zelenskyy, saying: “Will probably be good if the European Union [EU] had been to repeat the US-UK sanction in opposition to Lukoil and Rosneft.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s particular envoy Kirill Dmitriev stated the sanctions had been “not such an enormous concern” for Russia, since they may probably additionally enhance oil costs, that means that “Russia can be simply promoting much less oil at the next value”.
In an interview with CNN, Dmitriev additionally stated {that a} assembly between Trump and President Putin “will occur”, however “most likely at a later date”.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated there was “absolute readability” throughout Friday’s “coalition of the prepared” assembly that progress on utilizing frozen Russian belongings to assist Ukraine have to be realised “inside a brief timetable”.

NATO member Lithuania closed its two biggest airports and shut crossings on its border with Belarus after helium climate balloons drifted into its territory.
Croatian lawmakers voted to reintroduce mandatory military service in response to international conflicts, together with Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.