Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,334

On Monday, October 20, 2025, this is how things are going:

Fighting

• A gas processing plant in Russia’s Orenburg region was struck by a “large-scale fire,” according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces in a Facebook post.
• The largest facility of its kind in the world, the Orenburg gas processing plant, was ordered to stop importing gas from Kazakhstan in the wake of the Ukrainian drone attack, according to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy.
• Yevgeny Solntsev, the governor of Orenburg, claimed earlier on Sunday that the plant, owned by Gazprom, had been partially damaged and that the drone attack had set a fire in a workshop at the facility. According to the operator, Kommersant reported that the blaze was later contained.
• The Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in the Samara region of Russia was also hit by Ukraine’s General Staff.
• Private Ukrainian energy company DTEK reported in a post on Telegram that Russian forces “massively” attacked a coal mine in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. 192 mineworkers, who were underground at the time of the incident, were being evacuated.
• According to Russia’s state news agency, the Ministry of Defense defeated 323 Ukrainian drones, two guided bombs, and three rocket launchers in a single day.
• In a Facebook post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote that Russia had recently launched nearly 50 missiles, 1, 370 guided aerial bombs, and 3, 270 attack drones.

diplomacy and politics

During a White House meeting on Friday, US President Donald Trump reportedly asked Zelenskyy to give up territory to Russia, which disappointed the Ukrainian delegation, according to Reuters, citing two unidentified officials.
• According to the Financial Times, the meeting was heated, with Trump threatening to “destroy” Ukraine if Kyiv refused to agree to Moscow’s terms for a resolution to end the conflict.
• On Sunday, Polish President Donald Tusk stated on X that “none of us should put pressure on Zelenskyyy when it comes to territorial concessions.”
• Since the Russian leader is “more powerful than Hamas,” Zelenskyy told NBC that more pressure must be placed on Putin.
• Additionally, the Ukrainian president added that Putin and Trump should discuss their future interactions in Hungary.
• Trump once more stated in an interview with Fox News that he was not interested in sending more weapons to Ukraine, saying, “We have to remember one thing. We also require them for ourselves. We can’t, you know, give Ukraine all of our weapons, right?
• In a post on X, the German Federal Foreign Office stated that the country’s “leadership has for months been agitating against the EU, Germany, and the German ambassador personally.