Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,343

On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

• One person was killed and three others were injured in Russia’s southern Zaporizhia region on Tuesday, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov, who carried out 396 attacks on 15 villages.
• One person was killed and six were injured in the Kherson Regional Military Administration, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, on Tuesday. Russian forces also launched drone attacks, air strikes, and artillery shelling across the Ukrainian region.
• According to Prokudin, a woman who was hurt in a Russian attack in the Kherson region on Monday passed away as a result of her injuries.
• Only 561 people were still living in the city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region as of midday on Tuesday, according to Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration. As Russian forces advanced, thousands of people were forced to flee the city, which had a population of more than 26 000 before the war.
• An 85-year-old woman was killed in Ukrainian attacks in Kherson, which is occupied by Russia, according to a local official.
• 5, 800 people in the area have been without electricity as a result of Ukrainian attacks on power lines and substations, according to the governor of Kherson appointed by Russia, Vladimir Saldo.
• Authorities in Russia reported late on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had slowed down air traffic around the Russian capital by sending drones for a third night straight towards Moscow.
• A local official claims that Ukrainian forces killed a person in Bryansk, near the Russian border.
• Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister’s Ambassador at large, reported to the TASS state news agency that nearly 20 people, including a child, were killed in recent Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions.
• According to TASS, Russian forces shot down 124 Ukrainian drones within 24 hours, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Politics and diplomacy

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated on Tuesday that Kyiv was prepared to reach peace with Russia, but that it would not cede any more territory as Moscow had demanded.
• He added that officials from the United States and Europe would meet to discuss the specifics of a ceasefire plan at the end of the week.
• There is no way to put an end to the war, he said. A ceasefire is required, Zelenskyy said. Our advisers will meet in the upcoming days, we agreed on Friday or Saturday, so we have a plan to begin diplomacy. The specifics of this plan will be discussed.
• When the two leaders meet later this week, the Ukrainian leader also urged US President Donald Trump to press China’s Xi Jinping to end his support for Russia.
• He added that Ukraine requires financial assistance from Europe to defend itself from Russian forces for another two or three years.
• According to Katherina Reiche, Germany’s economy minister, the US government has written to Reuters that Rosneft’s German business will no longer be subject to new oil sanctions because the assets are no longer under Russian control.
• Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, stated that while Trump has urged other nations to stop purchasing Russian oil, Russia’s partners will make their own decisions regarding whether to continue purchasing its energy products.
• Peskov added that because Kyiv has put peace negotiations with Ukraine on hold, Russia is unable to assess the status of them and is unwilling to respond to questions posed by Russia.
• Since the US’s most recent sanctions against Moscow, many Indian refiners have halted new orders for the country’s oil, according to Reuters. However, state-run Indian Oil said it will not stop buying Russian oil as long as it adheres to the sanctions.
• Russian crude is not permitted, according to the statement. Sanctions are beingimposed on the entities and shipping routes, according to Anuj Jain, Indian Oil’s finance director. I will continue to purchase something if someone approaches me with a non-sanctioned entity, and the cap is being met, and the shipping is acceptable, he said.
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, an Indian state-owned warplane manufacturer, announced on Tuesday that it had reached an initial agreement to build civil commuter aircraft with Russian aerospace company United Aircraft Corporation, which is subject to Western sanctions.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy claimed that Ukraine, which has made significant increases in weapons production during the war, intends to start controlled arms exports starting next month.
• Matthew Whitaker, the US’s permanent representative to NATO, reported to Bloomberg that he anticipates raising money to pay for Ukraine’s weapons until 2026.
• He said, “It’s going to be US weapons…  and I think this is yet another example of our NATO allies here on the continent supporting Ukraine,” referring to the Trump administration’s policy of ensuring that European countries purchase US weapons to support Ukraine rather than the US government.