{"id":525963,"date":"2025-10-25T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/525963\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:23:11","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1339-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/525963\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,339 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Here are the key events from day 1,339 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 25 Oct 202525 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Here is how things stand on Saturday, October 25, 2025:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukrainian National Police reported that a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/four-killed-as-man-detonates-explosive-device-at-ukraine-train-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detonated a grenade<\/a> on a train station platform in Ovruch city in Ukraine\u2019s Zhytomyr region, killing three people, as well as himself, and injuring 12 others. The three people killed were all women. Police did not say if the attack, which occurred near Ukraine\u2019s border with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/where\/belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belarus<\/a>, was connected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/ukraines-zelenskyy-to-meet-european-leaders-in-london-over-military-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Russian shelling killed two people and damaged 23 apartment buildings in the Shumenskyi neighbourhood of Ukraine\u2019s Kherson region, the Ukrinform news site reported.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian shelling killed two people in Oleshky, in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine\u2019s Kherson region, Russia\u2019s TASS news agency reported, citing the area\u2019s Moscow-installed governor, Volodymyr Saldo.<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces seized the village of Dronivka in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, TASS reported, citing the Russian defence ministry.<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces shot down 111 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the early hours of Friday, TASS reported, citing Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence.<\/li>\n<li>The British Ministry of Defence reports that North Korean \u201cuncrewed aerial system [UAS] operators\u201d are said to be assisting Russian forces to target Ukrainian positions in Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region with rockets, according to an \u201cintelligence update\u201d shared on social media, citing Ukraine\u2019s General Staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Military aid<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>\n<p id=\"france-s-president-emmanuel-macron-announced-that-france-will-provide-additional-aster-missiles-new-training-programs-and-new-mirage-aircraft-to-ukraine-in-the-coming-days-france-s-le-monde-newspaper-reports\">France\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will provide \u201cadditional Aster missiles, new training programmes, and new Mirage aircraft\u201d to Ukraine in the coming days, France\u2019s Le Monde newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told the Politico news outlet that Russia presents a \u201cpermanent threat\u201d to European security, and United States President Donald Trump should supply Ukraine with weapons, including long-range Tomahawk missiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and Diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/ukraines-zelenskyy-to-meet-european-leaders-in-london-over-military-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called on allies<\/a> to sanction all Russian oil companies, after the US imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/23\/trump-hits-russias-oil-giants-with-sanctions-eu-bans-russian-lng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new sanctions<\/a> against Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSanctions that hit Russian oil \u2013 Russian oil infrastructure, Russian oil companies \u2013 are a big step, and I thank President Trump and all our partners who are implementing this,\u201d Zelenskyy said at a news conference in London, together with other \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d members.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Dick Schoof, prime minister of the Netherlands, agreed with Zelenskyy, saying: \u201cIt will be good if the European Union [EU] were to copy the US-UK sanction against Lukoil and Rosneft.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said the sanctions were \u201cnot such a big issue\u201d for Russia, since they will likely also increase oil prices, meaning that \u201cRussia will be just selling less oil at a higher price\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>In an interview with CNN, Dmitriev also said that a meeting between Trump and President Putin \u201cwill happen\u201d, but \u201cprobably at a later date\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said there was \u201cabsolute clarity\u201d during Friday\u2019s \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d meeting that progress on using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine must be realised \u201cwithin a short timetable\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regional Security<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>NATO member Lithuania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/lithuania-shuts-airports-belarus-border-crossings-after-balloon-sightings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed its two biggest airports<\/a> and shut crossings on its border with Belarus after helium weather balloons drifted into its territory.<\/li>\n<li>Croatian lawmakers voted to reintroduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/croatia-reintroduces-mandatory-military-conscription-after-17-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandatory military service<\/a>\u00a0in response to global conflicts, including Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the key events from day 1,339 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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