Russia-Ukraine struggle: Record of key occasions, day 1,340 | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

Listed below are the important thing occasions from day 1,340 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, October 26, 2025:

Preventing

• Russia launched a drone assault on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, within the early hours of Sunday, placing residential buildings and wounding at the least 5 folks, together with two youngsters, in line with officers.
• Russian missile and drone assaults on Ukraine in a single day on Saturday killed at the least two folks and wounded 12 others, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko mentioned on X. She accused Moscow of making an attempt to “create a humanitarian disaster” in her nation amid the winter season.
• The Russian assaults on Saturday focused “important infrastructure”, the vitality grid, a railroad and residential areas within the Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy and different areas, Ukrainian Minister of International Affairs Andrii Sybiha wrote in a separate put up on X. “Russian terror can and ought to be stopped,” he mentioned, as he known as for “stronger sanctions” towards Moscow.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that such assaults intensified Ukraine’s want for Patriot air defence techniques. “America, Europe and the G7 nations can assist be sure that such assaults now not threaten lives,” he wrote.
• Ukraine’s Air Power, in a press release on Telegram, mentioned it downed 4 of 9 missiles and 50 of 62 drones launched within the Russian assaults throughout the nation on Saturday.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence, in the meantime, mentioned that its forces had downed 121 Ukrainian drones in a single day, together with seven that had been flying in direction of Moscow.
• Individually, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod area, Vyacheslav Gladkov, mentioned that Ukrainian forces struck a dam on a reservoir within the border space, inflicting injury. He warned that the strikes may danger flooding and suggested residents of two border settlements to quickly evacuate.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump advised reporters on board Air Power One, whereas heading to Asia, that he’s “not going to be losing” his time on assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin till he thinks a deal is in place to safe peace between Russia and Ukraine.
• The Reuters information company, citing a US official and one other individual, reported that Trump’s administration can be getting ready further sanctions it may use to focus on key areas of Russia’s financial system if Putin continues to delay ending the struggle.
• Reuters quoted the US official as saying that Washington want to see European allies make the subsequent massive Russia transfer, which could possibly be further sanctions or tariffs.
• Zelenskyy has welcomed the newest US sanctions concentrating on two of Russia’s two largest oil corporations, Rosneft and Lukoil, “a powerful and much-needed message that aggression is not going to go unanswered”.
• In a separate assertion on Telegram, Zelenskyy introduced that Ukraine expects to obtain as much as 150 Swedish Gripen fighter jets beginning subsequent yr, hailing the deal as essential to defend the nation.
• Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s particular envoy for funding and financial cooperation, nevertheless, mentioned in an interview with the US cable broadcaster CNN, that Moscow, Washington and Kyiv are near a diplomatic answer to finish the three-year struggle.