Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,342

Published On 28 Oct 2025

On Tuesday, October 28, 2025, the situation is as follows:

Fighting

A 44-year-old man was killed and several others were hurt in the Russian assaults on Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhia, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov on Monday as the death toll from other Sunday assaults remained high.
According to Ukrainian officials, two people were killed in the eastern Donetsk region on Sunday in addition to a 69-year-old man in the northern Sumy region. According to the Sumy police, 15 others, including two children, were hurt.
The son of a Russian general, Lieutenant Vasily Marzoev, was killed using a guided aerial bomb, according to Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR). Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the report.
According to Russian Governor Alexander Bogomaz, a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian minibus in the Bryansk region left the driver dead and five passengers injured, according to the state news agency.
According to the ministry, 350 Ukrainian drones, two guided missiles, and seven rocket launchers were all shot down by Russian forces in the past 24 hours, according to TASS.
Russian drone attacks were used as “part of a coordinated strategy to drive out civilians from [Ukrainian] territories,” according to a report from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.
The report described civilians who were reportedly attacked with fire bombs or explosives while seeking shelter and were chased for extended distances by drones with mounted cameras.

Russian relations with Washington were strained by the missile test, according to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin.
Russia’s launch of the Burevestnik missile test was reportedly conducted from Novaya Zemlya’s Barents Sea archipelago, according to Norway’s military intelligence service.
Following Trump’s recent suggestion to end the conflict at its current lines, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy disclosed to the US-based Axios news outlet that Kyiv and its allies have agreed to work on a ceasefire plan in the upcoming ten days.
Putin and the US had an already defunct plutonium disposal agreement that aimed to stop both countries from developing more nuclear weapons on Monday by signing a law.
When he meets with Trump in Washington next week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will talk about US sanctions against Russian oil companies, among other things, according to Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister.

Inga Ruginiene, the country’s prime minister, announced on Monday that her country would begin defusing smuggler balloons coming from Belarus, a close ally of Russia, after they repeatedly interrupted the Baltic nation’s air traffic.
Helium balloons over Lithuania were a “provocation” and “a hybrid threat,” according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who added that they are another motivation to intensify the European Union’s Eastern Flank Watch and European drone defense initiatives.

The list, which includes 68 foreign components that are said to be from China, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the US, was released by Ukraine’s military intelligence.

Source: Aljazeera