Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,332

Published On 18 Oct 2025

On Saturday, October 18, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

Vladimir Saldo, the region’s elected governor, wrote in a post on Telegram that two adults and a 10-year-old child were killed by Ukrainian shelling in Kherson.
A 38-year-old man was killed and four others were hurt in the Sumy region of Ukraine, according to a post on Telegram from the regional administration.
According to local authorities, at least eight people were also hurt by Russian attacks in the Ukrainian regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv.
An oil depot and a gas treatment plant were destroyed on Friday night in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces.
According to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, Sergey Aksyonov, the newly elected Russian-appointed governor of Crimea, said a Ukrainian drone attack had damaged several electrical substations in the Russian-occupied region.
According to Regional Governor Vyacheslav Chaus, Russian forces shelled the Chernihiv region of Ukraine 68 times in a 24-hour period, causing fires at a logging company and harming residential areas.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, a representative for UNICEF, to condemn the Thursday attack by Ukraine that seriously injured Russian correspondent for foreign affairs Ivan Zuyev and injured his colleague in the Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine.

Zelenskyy praised Trump for his “successful ceasefire” in the Middle East, saying that despite the fact that “Putin is not ready,” he is confident that with his “help, we can stop this war, and we really need it.”
Trump objected to Zelenskyy’s request for Tomahawk missiles, which are precise, long-range projectiles intended to strike directly into Russia, citing the possibility of a “big escalation” in the process.
Trump also stated to reporters that Zelenskyy would “be in touch” with Trump during upcoming meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary.
Despite the Russian leader being detained by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Hungary is currently leaving, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said his country would permit Putin to attend the scheduled summit with Trump in Budapest.
In a post on X, Putin’s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, suggested constructing a “US-Russia link via the Bering Strait,” along with billionaire Elon Musk’s The Boring Company.
Trump responded on Friday, saying the tunnel proposal was “interesting,” while Zelenskyy responded, “I’m not happy with this idea.”
Following his White House meeting, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Zelenskyy “reiterated their unwavering commitment to Ukraine in the face of ongoing Russian aggression,” according to a summary of the call that Downing Street published.

Source: Aljazeera