Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,348

On Monday, November 3, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

• At least 15 people, including two children, were killed when Russia fired a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight on Sunday, according to the Kyiv Independent.
• Nearly 60, 000 people in Zaporizhia’s southern front-line region were without power after the attacks, according to Ukrainian authorities.
• According to local officials, Ukrainian forces launched a drone attack on Tuapse, one of Russia’s main Black Sea oil ports, igniting a fire there and causing damage to at least two foreign vessels.
• Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya posted a message on Telegram urging the overnight attack on Sunday to temporarily close dozens of Russian airports, most of them in the country’s south and west, for safety reasons.

Weapons

• Donald Trump, the president of the United States, stated that he is not thinking about a deal that would allow Ukraine to obtain long-range Tomahawk missiles to use against Russia.

Sanctions

• According to two people with direct knowledge of the situation and several industry sources, Turkiye’s largest oil refineries are buying more non-Russian oil in response to recent Western sanctions against Russia. Along with China and India, Turkey is a major importer of Russian crude.

diplomacy and politics

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed that the ongoing deadly Russian attacks on his nation demonstrated that Moscow was trying to “inflict harm” on civilians. Kyiv responded by strengthening its air defenses.
• Instead of a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, “painstaking work” on the details of a potential agreement is required to end the conflict in Ukraine.