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

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.”