Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,321

On Tuesday, October 7, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

• On Monday afternoon, “two rounds of shelling struck less than a mile” [less than a mile] from Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, according to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• The plant has been using emergency diesel generators for almost two weeks now that it has lost its external power source, according to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who issued the warning. Russia and Ukraine have claimed responsibility for recent attacks near the nuclear power station.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Feodosia oil terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea on Monday night, sparking a “large-scale fire,” according to a post on Telegram from the country’s general staff.
• According to Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, a Russian attack has reportedly slammed the roof of a Sumy perinatal center, causing it to catch fire. Before the attack, Yermak noted that the children, patients, and employees had been moved to a bomb shelter.
• In a post on Telegram, the region’s governor Oleh Syniehubov claimed two people were killed and five others were hurt by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
• One person was killed and three others were injured in the Kherson region of Ukraine, according to regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin, who had launched drone attacks, air strikes, and artillery shelling.
• In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian governor Ivan Fedorov wrote that a Russian attack in the Zaporizhia region had claimed the lives of one person and injured eleven people.
• According to Russian governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, the country’s state-run TASS news agency, two people were killed in a Ukrainian missile attack in the Belgorod region.
• One person was killed by a Ukrainian drone attack in Luhansk, according to a post on Telegram from the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk.

Regional security

There is no reason for Russia to be at fault for recent drone sightings across Europe, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who described the “whole story” as “really quite strange, to say the least.”
• After German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently claimed he assumed Russia was the source of the reported drone flights, Peskov added that “many politicians in Europe are now inclined to blame Russia for everything” and that they do so “unreasonably, indiscriminately.”
• The Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany over his alleged involvement in explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipeline must remain in custody for another 40 days, according to his attorney.

diplomacy and politics

• The Finnish government announced on Monday that President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo will meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington DC on Thursday and Friday.

military assistance

The US President responded to a question posed by Ukrainian journalists asking for long-range Tomahawk missiles from Trump: “I would ask some questions. I’m not trying to make that war worse.
• Vladimir Putin’s video, which claimed the sale of Tomahawk missiles would end any progress made in Moscow’s relationship with Washington, was released the day after Trump made his comments.
• After populists who have pledged to end the scheme won a recent election in his country, Czech President Petr Pavel urged political parties to keep funding Ukraine.
• According to Pavel, “If we were to reduce or even end this support, we would primarily harm ourselves, but ending it would also have a negative impact on Ukraine, where many more would lose their lives.”