Listed here are the important thing occasions from day 1,320 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.
Revealed On 5 Oct 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Monday, October 6, 2025:
Preventing
- A Russian assault killed a family of four, together with a 15-year-old lady, within the village of Lapaivka in Ukraine’s Lviv area, the regional prosecutor’s workplace reported in a submit on Fb.
- The assault on the area in Ukraine’s west, removed from the Russian border, additionally injured a number of individuals and focused fuel infrastructure used for heating throughout a chilly snap, the regional administrator’s workplace wrote in a submit on Telegram.
- One individual was killed and 10 others injured as Russian forces launched 702 assaults on 18 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area in a day, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
- The assaults left at the least 73,000 individuals with out energy, with service restored to most individuals by early afternoon, Fedorov added.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed on Sunday its forces had hit Ukrainian military-industrial services in addition to fuel and vitality infrastructure in a single day.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a submit on Fb that Russian forces launched greater than 50 missiles and about 500 assault drones at Ukraine in a single day into Sunday, focusing on the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa and Kirovohrad areas.
- Ukrainian assaults on Russia’s Belgorod area left some 40,000 individuals with out energy, Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote in a submit on Telegram.
- Three individuals had been additionally injured in Ukrainian assaults on Belgorod, Russia’s TASS state information company reported.
- Russian forces shot down 4 Ukrainian guided aerial bombs and 145 drones in a 24-hour interval, TASS reported.
Politics and Diplomacy
- In response to a query from reporters about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supply final month to voluntarily keep limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons, United States President Donald Trump stated, “Feels like a good suggestion to me.”
- German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius warned Europe have to be cautious of falling into “Putin’s escalation entice” whereas additionally strengthening anti-drone defences, amid drone sightings close to airports throughout Europe.
- Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated that “particular individuals from overseas … expressed direct assist … for the introduced try and overthrow [Moldova’s] constitutional order,” naming the European Union ambassador to Georgia, the day after protesters sought to drive their method into the presidential palace.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz knowledgeable Trump about plans to make use of frozen Russian property to assist Ukrainian armed forces in a telephone name on Sunday.
- The Reuters information company reported that Trump administration diplomats are planning to accuse Cuba of offering as much as 5,000 fighters to assist Moscow’s battle on Ukraine, in a bid to restrict assist for lifting the decades-long US embargo on Cuba. Cuban authorities previously arrested 17 individuals on fees associated to a human trafficking ring that allegedly lured younger Cuban males to battle in Ukraine with the Russian navy.
Weapons
- Putin stated that if the US supplies Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for long-range strikes deep into Russia, it might “result in the destruction of our relationships, or at the least the optimistic developments which have emerged in these relations”, in a video launched by Russian state tv reporter, Pavel Zarubin, on Sunday.
- In a submit on X, Zelenskyy stated that Russian weapons used to assault Ukraine embody parts made by firms from many locations, together with “the US, China, Taiwan, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Netherlands”.
