Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,337

On Thursday, October 23, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

• The villages of Pavlivka and Ivanivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine were taken, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. In response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian targets, the ministry claimed it also attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
• Six people were killed by Russian-prolonged assaults on Ukrainian territory on Wednesday, including two children, and nationwide power outages were forced, according to Ukrainian officials.
• According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 405 drones and 28 missiles at Ukraine overnight in an attack on its energy infrastructure. According to the air force, Ukraine detonated 16 Russian missiles and 333 drones, while other missiles detonated directly and defeated directly at targets.
• Svitlana Hrynchuk, the minister of energy of Ukraine, claimed that Russia is conducting a systematic attack to systematically devastate Ukraine’s energy system and is targeting repair teams at energy facilities with secondary attacks.
• Four people were hurt in the second night of Russian drone attacks in Kyiv, according to Tymur Tkachenko, the city’s military commander, early on Thursday. A kindergarten was among the damage done by drones, according to Takachenko.
• Overnight attacks were carried out by the Ukrainian military against an oil refinery in Dagestan and a weapons and ammunition factory in Mordovia, Russia.
• Following recent sharp increases in Ukrainian drone attacks that have been sweeping across the nation in recent months, Russian Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky declared that Russia’s army would use reservists to defend civilian infrastructure, including oil refineries.
• According to reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted a test of Russia’s nuclear forces on land, sea, and air to review their level of readiness and organizational structure. A nuclear submarine launched a ballistic missile from a land-based Yars intercontinental missile, a Sineva ballistic missile launched from a strategic bomber, and nuclear-capable cruise missiles were also used during the test.

Sanctions

• As his anger with President Putin grows over the failure to implement a ceasefire, the president of the United States has for the first time in his second term put sanctions on Russia for Ukraine.
• The US Department of Treasury called on Moscow to accept a ceasefire immediately and declared it would investigate further action.
• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated in a statement that the government is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies, which fund the Kremlin’s war machine, because President Putin has refused to put an end to this pointless conflict. We ask our allies to support us and follow these restrictions.
• Trump added that he anticipated reaching a trade agreement with Xi Jinping, and that he would raise concerns about China’s plans to buy Russian oil at their meeting in South Korea the following week.
• Additionally, Russia’s 19th package of sanctions, which includes a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, was approved by the European Union.
• Short-term contracts expire after six months, and long-term contracts expire on January 1, 2027, respectively.
• Due to the undermining German state control of two German subsidiaries of the sanctioned Russian oil giant Rosneft, Britain has issued a special license allowing businesses to collaborate with them. Russia’s two biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, were accused of helping to fund the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine by Britain last week.
• Ukraine is urging European nations to refrain from using a proposed $163 billion loan based on frozen Russian state assets, arguing that it needs to be able to purchase non-European weapons, repair Russian-attack damage, and pay compensation for victims. To boost their defense industries, some EU states have suggested that the funds should be used primarily for European-made weapons.
• Russian Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev stated that while it has no intention of seizing any European assets, including banks and companies, Russia will consider its position if the EU seizes frozen Russian sovereign assets.

talks on a ceasefire

• Due to the timing of the meeting and the lack of progress in diplomatic efforts to end Ukraine’s hostility, President Trump claimed.
• Trump told reporters at the White House, “We called off our meeting with President Putin because it just didn’t feel right.” It didn’t seem like we were going to arrive where we needed to be. Trump responded, “I cancelled it, but we’ll do it in the future.”
• Trump also expressed frustration with the stalled negotiations, saying, “Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations, and then they don’t go anywhere. They simply don’t move anywhere.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, described Trump’s suggestion that Russia and Ukraine should “freeze the war at its current front lines” as “a good compromise,” but he doubted that Putin would back it.

financial and military assistance

• Trump refuted a news report that claimed the US had approved for Ukraine to launch long-range missiles into Russia, adding that the US “has nothing to do with those missiles.”
• After meeting with President Zelenskyy, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced that Sweden has signed a letter of intent that could allow it to send 150 of its domestically produced Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine.
• Next year, Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine plans to start using Swedish Gripen jets. Gripens are a top priority for our army, they say. He claimed that it is all about the money and maneuvers.
• According to the Norwegian government, Norway will give Ukraine another 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($149.4 million) for the purchase of natural gas to provide electricity and heating.