Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,336 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Printed On 22 Oct 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Wednesday, October 22, 2025:
Combating
- A “huge” Russian assault killed 4 folks and injured seven within the city of Novhorod-Siverskyi, in Ukraine’s Chernihiv area, Governor Viacheslav Chaus wrote in a submit on Telegram.
- Chaus mentioned that Russian forces launched about 20 Shahed drones within the assault and that there was “a number of destruction within the metropolis”.
- Russian assaults killed two folks and injured one individual within the metropolis of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, the top of the Kostiantynivka Metropolis Navy Administration, Serhii Horbunov, wrote in a submit on Fb.
- A Russian drone assault injured 9 folks in Ukraine’s Sumy area, Governor Oleh Hryhorov mentioned.
- A Ukrainian assault killed one individual and injured 5 in settlements in a Russian-occupied a part of the Kherson area in southern Ukraine, the Russian-installed governor, Vladimir Saldo, mentioned.
- A Ukrainian drone assault killed one individual within the village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya in Russia’s Belgorod Area, Russia’s state TASS information company reported, citing regional authorities.
- Russian assaults on power services left tons of of hundreds of Ukrainians with out electrical energy in Ukraine’s Chernihiv area, the Ministry of Vitality of Ukraine mentioned on Tuesday.
- Greater than 1,000 folks have been left with out electrical energy resulting from a Ukrainian assault on the Kamianka-Dniprovska space of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian Zaporizhia area, TASS reported, citing native officers.
- Ukrainian forces struck the Bryansk chemical plant in Russia, Ukraine’s Basic Employees mentioned in a submit on Fb, including that the “end result of the strike is being assessed”.
Politics and diplomacy
- A senior White Home official informed Al Jazeera that “there aren’t any plans for [US President Donald] President Trump to satisfy with Russian President Vladimir Putin within the rapid future”, days after Trump advised a gathering may happen in Hungary “inside two weeks or so”.
- Talking to reporters within the Oval Workplace, Trump mentioned of developments: “I don’t wish to have a wasted assembly… I don’t wish to have a waste of time, so I’ll see what occurs.”
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov additionally implied that any potential assembly may take time, saying “preparation is required, severe preparation”.
- Nevertheless, Putin’s particular envoy for funding and financial cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, mentioned on X late on Tuesday that the “media is twisting remark in regards to the ‘rapid future’ to undercut the upcoming Summit”, including that “preparations proceed” for the assembly between Trump and Putin.
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- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly handle that Moscow’s dwindling curiosity within the presidential assembly got here after the US appeared to again away from contemplating supplying long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
- “As quickly as the difficulty of long-range mobility turned somewhat additional away for us – for Ukraine – Russia virtually mechanically turned much less focused on diplomacy,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
Regional Safety
- A person who shot and wounded Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico final yr has been discovered responsible of terrorism prices and handed a 21-year jail sentence. The shooter mentioned he opposed the strategy taken in direction of Ukraine by Fico, who ended state army help to Ukraine and sought nearer ties with Moscow.
