Published On 19 Oct 2025
On Sunday, October 19, 2025, how things are going:
Fighting
- One village in the Dnipropetrovsk region and two in the northeastern Kharkiv, which are closer to the Russian border, had already been taken by the Russian Defense Ministry.
- Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, announced on X that work has already been done to repair the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s damaged power lines. Authorities had warned that the plant’s safety was threatened by a four-week power outage that required power to keep reactors cool in order to prevent a dangerous meltdown.
diplomacy and politics
- After meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on Friday, Ukrainians expressed disappointment that the United States might not provide them with long-range Tomahawk missiles, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Regional security
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled opposition leader in Belarus, pleaded with Trump on Saturday to intensify efforts to promote democracy there, arguing that a free Belarus was in the interests of Washington.
Source: Aljazeera
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