Russia-Ukraine warfare: Listing of key occasions, day 1,340 | Russia-Ukraine warfare Information

Listed here are the important thing occasions from day 1,340 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, October 26, 2025:

Combating

• Russia launched a drone assault on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, within the early hours of Sunday, putting residential buildings and wounding at the least 5 folks, together with two youngsters, in accordance with officers.
• Russian missile and drone assaults on Ukraine in a single day on Saturday killed at the least two folks and wounded 12 others, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stated on X. She accused Moscow of making an attempt to “create a humanitarian disaster” in her nation amid the winter season.
• The Russian assaults on Saturday focused “vital infrastructure”, the vitality grid, a railroad and residential areas within the Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy and different areas, Ukrainian Minister of Overseas Affairs Andrii Sybiha wrote in a separate submit on X. “Russian terror can and must be stopped,” he stated, as he known as for “stronger sanctions” towards Moscow.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that such assaults intensified Ukraine’s want for Patriot air defence programs. “America, Europe and the G7 nations can assist be certain that such assaults not threaten lives,” he wrote.
• Ukraine’s Air Pressure, in an announcement on Telegram, stated it downed 4 of 9 missiles and 50 of 62 drones launched within the Russian assaults throughout the nation on Saturday.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence, in the meantime, stated that its forces had downed 121 Ukrainian drones in a single day, together with seven that had been flying in direction of Moscow.
• Individually, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod area, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated that Ukrainian forces struck a dam on a reservoir within the border space, inflicting injury. He warned that the strikes may threat flooding and suggested residents of two border settlements to quickly evacuate.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump informed reporters on board Air Pressure One, whereas heading to Asia, that he’s “not going to be losing” his time on assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin till he thinks a deal is in place to safe peace between Russia and Ukraine.
• The Reuters information company, citing a US official and one other particular person, reported that Trump’s administration can also be getting ready extra sanctions it may use to focus on key areas of Russia’s economic system if Putin continues to delay ending the warfare.
• Reuters quoted the US official as saying that Washington want to see European allies make the subsequent massive Russia transfer, which might be extra sanctions or tariffs.
• Zelenskyy has welcomed the newest US sanctions focusing on two of Russia’s two largest oil corporations, Rosneft and Lukoil, “a powerful and much-needed message that aggression is not going to go unanswered”.
• In a separate assertion on Telegram, Zelenskyy introduced that Ukraine expects to obtain as much as 150 Swedish Gripen fighter jets beginning subsequent yr, hailing the deal as essential to defend the nation.
• Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s particular envoy for funding and financial cooperation, nonetheless, stated in an interview with the US cable broadcaster CNN, that Moscow, Washington and Kyiv are near a diplomatic answer to finish the three-year warfare.