Ukraine assaults Russian fuel processing plant as Zelenskyy requires extra worldwide stress on Putin.
Revealed On 19 Oct 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Monday, October 20, 2025:
Combating
- The Common Workers of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated in a submit on Fb that it struck a fuel processing plant in Russia’s Orenburg area, inflicting explosions and “a large-scale fireplace”.
- Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Power stated that the Orenburg fuel processing plant, the biggest facility of its form on the earth, had been pressured to droop its consumption of fuel from Kazakhstan following the Ukrainian drone assault.
- Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev had stated earlier on Sunday that the plant, which is run by state-owned fuel large Gazprom, had been partially broken, and that the drone assault brought about a fireplace at a workshop on the facility. The blaze was later put out, Russian media outlet Kommersant reported, citing the operator.
- Ukraine’s Common Workers additionally stated that its forces hit the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Russia’s Samara area.
- Russian forces launched a “huge” assault on a coal mine in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, non-public Ukrainian vitality firm DTEK wrote in a submit on Telegram, including that 192 mineworkers, who have been underground in the course of the incident, have been being evacuated.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated it shot down 323 Ukrainian drones, two guided bombs, and three rocket launchers in a 24-hour interval, in keeping with Russia’s state TASS information company.
- Russia launched greater than 3,270 assault drones, 1,370 guided aerial bombs, and almost 50 missiles towards Ukraine up to now week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a submit on Fb.
Politics and diplomacy
- United States President Donald Trump pressed Zelenskyy to surrender territory to Russia throughout a White House meeting on Friday that left the Ukrainian delegation disillusioned, Reuters reported, citing two unidentified officers.
- The Monetary Occasions additionally reported that the assembly was tense, saying that Trump advised Zelenskyy that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “destroy” Ukraine if Kyiv didn’t settle for Moscow’s phrases for ending the warfare.
- Polish President Donald Tusk wrote on X on Sunday that “none of us ought to put stress on Zelenskyy relating to territorial concessions”.
- Zelenskyy advised NBC that extra stress is required on Putin, because the Russian chief is “extra sturdy than Hamas”.
- The Ukrainian president additionally stated that he must be included in upcoming talks between Putin and Trump in Hungary.
- In an interview on Fox Information on Sunday morning, Trump once more indicated that he was not keen to ship extra arms to Ukraine, saying: “We’ve to recollect one factor. We want them for ourselves too. You understand, we are able to’t give all of our weapons to Ukraine.”
- Germany’s Federal International Workplace introduced that it was briefly recalling its envoy to Georgia, saying in a submit on X that the nation’s “management has for months been agitating towards the EU, Germany and the German ambassador personally”.
