Russia-Ukraine War: List of Key Events, Day 1,332 | News of the Russia-Ukraine war

Here are the key events from day 1,332 of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Here’s how things stand on Saturday, October 18, 2025:

fighting

• A Ukrainian shelling killed two adults and a 10-year-old boy in Russian-occupied Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, the region’s Russian-appointed governor, wrote in a post on Telegram.
• Russian attacks in the Sumy region of Ukraine killed a 38-year-old man and injured four others, the regional administration wrote in a post on Telegram.
• The Russian attacks also wounded at least eight people in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, according to local authorities.
• Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said a Ukrainian drone strike destroyed an oil tank and a gas processing plant in Russian-occupied Crimea on Friday night.
• Crimea’s Russian-installed governor, Sergey Aksyonov, said a Ukrainian drone strike damaged several power substations in the Russian-occupied region, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
• Russian forces bombed Ukraine’s Chernihiv region 68 times in a 24-hour period, setting fires at a logging company and damaging residential areas, regional governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.
• Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on relevant UN bodies to condemn the Ukrainian attack that killed Russian war correspondent Ivan Zuyev and seriously injured his colleague in the Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine. on Thursday.

Politics and diplomacy

• The President of the United States, Donald Trump met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, telling reporters he was optimistic about the end of the war. “I think we have a chance to end the war quickly if flexibility is shown,” Trump told reporters.
• Zelenskyy congratulated Trump on his “successful ceasefire” in the Middle East, saying that although “Putin is not ready”, he is confident that with “Trump’s help, we can stop this war and we really need it”.
• Trump did not commit to Zelenskyy’s request for Tomahawk missiles, which are long-range, accurate missiles that Kiev is seeking to strike deep into Russia, saying that doing so “could mean a major escalation.”
• Trump also told reporters that Zelenskyy “will be in touch” during upcoming negotiations in Hungary, where the American president will meet with Russian Vladimir Putin.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said his country would allow Putin to attend the planned summit with Trump in Budapest, despite the Russian leader facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Hungary is in the process of abandoning.
• Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s investment envoy, proposed building a “US-Russia link across the Bering Strait” in a post on X, also suggesting that the undersea tunnel connecting Russia and the US could be built in conjunction with billionaire Elon Musk’s The Boring Company.
• Asked about the tunnel proposal on Friday, Trump said it was “interesting,” while Zelenskyy said, “I’m not happy with this idea.”
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a call with Zelenskyy after their meeting at the White House, where he “reiterated his unwavering commitment to Ukraine in the face of ongoing Russian aggression,” according to a summary of the call published by Downing Street.

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