Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,346

On Saturday, November 1, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

• According to Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, eight people were killed and 18 others were hurt in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in the past day.
• Local police in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine are “investigating the circumstances” of the “two car bombings in the border zone,” adding that five people were killed and three others were hurt when two different vehicles hit explosive devices on Friday.
• In a day-long post on Telegram, governor Ivan Fedorov wrote in a post about the assaults on 19 settlements in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine that at least three people were killed and 29 were hurt.
• The Kherson Regional Military Administration wrote in a post on Telegram on Friday that a 56-year-old woman was killed and four others were hurt in Russian shelling of the Kherson region of Ukraine’s Kherson region.
• According to Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported to reporters that 170 000 Russian troops are stationed close to Pokrovsk, but that the city is not encircled.
• The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the Ukrainian village of Novooleksandrivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine was under Russian control, according to TASS news agency. Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the assertion.
• More than 2, 000 households in Kamianka-Dniprovska, a town in Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, were without electricity as a result of Ukrainian shelling, according to TASS, citing local officials.
• Neptune cruise missiles were fired at a Russian thermal power plant in the Oryol region and an electric substation in Novobryansk, according to the Ukrainian navy on Friday.

diplomacy and politics

In support of Moldova’s efforts to acquiesce to Russia’s demands for its new leader, the country’s parliament named Alexandru Munteanu.

Sanctions

Because of its significant reliance on pipeline networks for its energy supplies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that he hopes to persuade US President Donald Trump that Hungary should be exempt from US sanctions on Russian oil. Additionally, Orban made note of a request by Germany for a refinery exemption.
• In response to new European sanctions against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it had banned entry for more EU officials from entering Russia, but it had not provided a list of the individuals who had been banned.
• Now that an updated EU-Ukraine free trade agreement has been in place, the European Commission declared on Friday that the EU’s export bans on Ukrainian foods were unjustifiable.

Regional security

Weapons

• According to three unnamed US and European officials, the Pentagon has assured the White House that providing Tomahawk weapons to Ukraine won’t harm US stockpiles.