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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,320

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Published On 5 Oct 2025

On Monday, October 6, 2025, this is how things are going.

Fighting

    A family of four, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed in a Russian attack in the Ukrainian village of Lapaivka, according to a Facebook post from the regional prosecutor’s office.

  • The regional administrator’s office wrote in a post on Telegram that the attack targeted gas infrastructure used for heating during a cold snap and injured several people in the region’s west of Ukraine, which is located far from the Russian border.
  • Ivan Fedorov, regional governor of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, reported on Telegram that 702 attacks were carried out on 18 settlements in the country’s Zaporizhia region in total, killing one person and injuring ten.
  • At least 73, 000 people were without power as a result of the attacks, according to Fedorov, with the majority of those receiving service by early afternoon.
  • Ukrainian military-industrial facilities and the infrastructure for gas and energy were attacked overnight, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense on Sunday.
  • Russian forces targeted the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad regions overnight, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Facebook post.
  • Around 40, 000 people in the Belgorod region of Russia were without power as a result of Ukrainian attacks, according to Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov’s post on Telegram.
  • According to Russian state news agency TASS, the Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod also left three people dead.
  • In a 24-hour period, Russian forces destroyed 145 drones and four guided aerial bombs, according to TASS.

Politics and diplomacy

  • Donald Trump, the president of the United States, responded to a question from reporters about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request last month to voluntarily impose restrictions on the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons.
  • In light of drone sightings near airports across Europe, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius urged Europe to be wary of falling into “Putin’s escalation trap.”
  • The day after protesters attempted to force their way into the presidential palace, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced that “specific people from abroad… expressed direct support for the … overthrow]Moldova’s] constitutional order.
  • In a Sunday phone call, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz informed Trump of plans to support the Ukrainian military with frozen Russian assets.
  • In a bid to stifle support for lifting the decades-long US embargo on Cuba, diplomats from the Trump administration are reportedly planning to accuse Cuba of providing up to 5, 000 fighters to support Russia’s war on Ukraine. 17 people were previously detained by Cuban authorities on suspicion of belonging to a human trafficking ring that allegedly eluded young Cuban men from joining the Ukrainian military in Ukraine.

Weapons

    In a video released on Sunday by Russian state television reporter Pavel Zarubin, Putin claimed that if the US provided Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for long-range strikes deep into Russia, it would “lead the destruction of our relations, or at least the positive trends that have emerged in these relations.”

  • Zelenskyy claimed in a post on X that Russian weapons include components produced by businesses in “the United States, China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Netherlands.”

Israel strikes Gaza, killing 24 before Egypt talks on Trump ceasefire plan

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In order to reach an agreement on ending the Gaza war in response to Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan, Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt.

Hamas, a group led by Khalil al-Hayya, announced on Sunday that its delegation had arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh and would begin the negotiations on Monday regarding the mechanisms for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces, and a prisoner exchange.

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The Israeli delegation, led by top negotiator Ron Dermer, will leave for the talks on Monday, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. After Netanyahu stated on Friday that he was optimistic that a deal to release all the remaining captives could be announced this week, there were more hopes for a potential ceasefire in Gaza.

The talks were moving quickly, according to President Trump of the United States. “These discussions have had a lot of success and are moving very quickly. He stated in a social media post on Sunday that the technical teams will again meet on Monday in Egypt to discuss and clarify the final details. “I’ve been told that the first phase will be finished this week, and I’m urging everyone to move quickly.

The Israeli army has continued its bombing campaign despite Trump’s request for Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza. According to sources, Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. Four asylum seekers were among the victims, according to the Nasser Medical Complex, who were shot close to an aid distribution center north of Rafah.

According to Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera, attacks are still occurring in Gaza City and the towns where the majority of Israeli military assaults and the ground offensive have occurred in recent weeks.

According to Mahmoud, “The Palestinians were hoping for a good night’s sleep, but that didn’t happen.”

In the past two years of conflict, more than 2,700 families, including more than 8,500 people, have been removed from the civil registry, according to Gaza’s government media office. Along with 1, 670 medical personnel, 254 journalists, and 140 civil defense rescue workers, at least 1, 015 children under the age of one have died.

Despite the fact that the hostages are “the closest we’ve come to getting all of the hostages released,” according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the conflict in Gaza has not yet come to an end.

Prior to the Cairo talks, Rubio urged Israel to stop bombing Gaza. He told US broadcaster CBS, “You can’t release hostages in the middle of strikes, so the strikes will have to end.” In the middle of it, there can’t be a war.

In accordance with Trump’s plan, Israel would withdraw its troops from Gaza until the “yellow line” in August and Hamas would release the remaining prisoners.

Israeli media quoted Defense Minister Israel Katz, who claimed that Israel would continue to hold control of the Strip despite the terms of the agreement’s explicit declarations that Israel would withdraw. He declared that “the [Israeli army] will remain in control of the areas to protect the communities, and that Hamamas will be disarmed, the Gaza Strip will be demilitarized.”

Hamas’ negotiations have Arab backing.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and the United Arab Emirates welcomed Hamas’ actions in the wake of the release of all Israeli prisoners and the start of negotiations over how to implement the plan.

The Foreign Ministers applauded President Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing and begin implementing the exchange agreement, according to the joint statement.

They applauded Hamas for declaring “its readiness to turn the Palestinian administrative committee of independent technocrats over” the situation in Gaza.

The statement referred to as an “important support” for efforts to end the war, according to Izzat al-Risheq, a senior member of Hamas’ political bureau. He also praised the “clear support for the Palestinian position in the negotiations,” which increases the likelihood of a lasting ceasefire agreement.

We look forward to more Arab and Islamic support, according to al-Risheq, in order to put an end to the occupation and realize the aspirations of our Palestinian people to establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

According to the White House, Trump has sent his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his principal Middle Eastern negotiator, Steve Witkoff, to Egypt.

A ceasefire would be in effect as soon as Israel’s initial military withdrawal line in Gaza was approved, according to the US president.

After Hamas agreed to release the Israeli prisoners and accept some other conditions in Trump’s Gaza plan, the talks are taking place in response to vexing concerns like Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal from the Strip.