Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,337 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.
Revealed On 23 Oct 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Thursday, October 23, 2025:
Combating
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned its forces captured the village of Pavlivka in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia area, in addition to Ivanivka village within the Dnipropetrovsk area. The ministry additionally mentioned it struck Ukrainian power infrastructure in what it claimed was a response to Ukrainian assaults on Russian civilian targets.
- Russian assaults all through Ukraine on Wednesday killed six individuals, together with two youngsters, and compelled nationwide energy outages, Ukrainian officers mentioned.
- Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned Russia launched 405 drones and 28 missiles at Ukraine in an in a single day assault focusing on power infrastructure. Ukraine downed 16 Russian missiles and 333 drones, whereas different missiles eluded defences and instantly hit targets, the air pressure mentioned.
- Ukrainian Vitality Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk mentioned Russia is implementing a methodical marketing campaign to destroy Ukraine’s power system and is focusing on restore groups working at power services with secondary assaults after preliminary strikes.
- Russian drones attacked Kyiv for a second evening on Wednesday, injuring 4 individuals, Tymur Tkachenko, head of town’s army administration, mentioned early on Thursday. Tkachenko mentioned drones broken a number of dwellings and different buildings, together with a kindergarten.
- Ukraine’s army mentioned it struck a weapons and ammunition plant within the Russian area of Mordovia and an oil refinery in Dagestan in in a single day assaults.
- Russian Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky mentioned Russia’s military would search to make use of reservists to defend civilian infrastructure reminiscent of oil refineries after a pointy rise in Ukrainian drone assaults deep into the nation over current months.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw a check of Russia’s nuclear forces on land, sea and air to rehearse their readiness and command construction, based on reviews. The check included the launch of a land-based Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, the launch of a Sineva ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine within the Barents Sea, and the launch of nuclear-capable cruise missiles from strategic bombers.
Sanctions
- United States President Donald Trump imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia for the primary time in his second time period, focusing on oil firms Lukoil and Rosneft as his frustration grows with President Putin over the failure to implement a ceasefire.
- The US Division of the Treasury mentioned it was ready to take additional motion and referred to as on Moscow to agree instantly to a ceasefire in its battle in Ukraine.
- “Given President Putin’s refusal to finish this mindless battle, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil firms that fund the Kremlin’s battle machine,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mentioned in a press release. “We encourage our allies to hitch us in and cling to those sanctions.”
- Trump additionally mentioned he anticipated to succeed in a commerce settlement with Chinese language President Xi Jinping, including that he would elevate issues about China’s purchases of Russian oil throughout their assembly in South Korea subsequent week.
- European Union international locations additionally permitted a nineteenth bundle of sanctions on Moscow that features a ban on Russian liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) imports.
- The LNG ban will take impact in two phases: Brief-term contracts will finish after six months, and long-term contracts from January 1, 2027.
- Britain has issued a particular licence permitting companies to work with two German subsidiaries of the sanctioned Russian oil big Rosneft, as they’re underneath German state management. Final week, Britain introduced new sanctions in opposition to Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two largest oil corporations, accusing them of serving to fund the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Ukraine is urging European international locations to not restrict its use of a proposed $163bn mortgage primarily based on frozen Russian state property, arguing that it wants to have the ability to purchase non-European arms, restore battle injury from Russian assaults and compensate victims. Some EU states have instructed the funds be spent primarily on European-made weapons to spice up their defence industries.
- Russia has no plans to grab any European property, together with firms and banks, however will think about its place if the EU confiscates frozen Russian sovereign property, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev mentioned.
Ceasefire talks
- President Trump mentioned he cancelled a deliberate summit with President Putin resulting from a scarcity of progress in diplomatic efforts to succeed in peace in Ukraine and a way that the timing was off.
- “We cancelled the assembly with President Putin – it simply didn’t really feel proper to me,” Trump instructed reporters on the White Home. “It didn’t really feel like we have been going to get to the place now we have to get. So I cancelled it, however we’ll do it sooner or later,” Trump mentioned.
- Trump additionally expressed frustration with the stalled negotiations, saying, “Each time I communicate with Vladimir, I’ve good conversations, after which they don’t go anyplace. They simply don’t go anyplace”.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Trump’s name for Ukraine and Russia to freeze the battle at its present entrance strains was “a superb compromise”, however he doubted that Putin would assist it.
Army and monetary help
- Trump mentioned a information report on the US giving approval for Ukraine to make use of long-range missiles deep into Russia was false, including the US “has nothing to do with these missiles”.
- Sweden has signed a letter of intent that would see it provide as much as 150 of its domestically produced Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson mentioned after assembly President Zelenskyy.
- Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine goals to obtain and begin utilizing Swedish Gripen jets subsequent yr. “For our military, Gripens are a precedence. It’s about cash, about manoeuvres,” he mentioned.
- Norway is donating one other 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($149.4m) to Ukraine for the acquisition of pure gasoline to safe electrical energy and heating, the Norwegian authorities mentioned.
