The Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 1326 | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Below are the main events from Day 1326 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here’s how things look on Sunday, October 12, 2025:

Fighting

• Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday killed at least five people and also cut power to parts of Ukraine. Southern Odessa regionAccording to the French news agency, quoting local officials.
• Agence France-Presse said that two victims were killed in an attack on a church in Kostyantinivka, east of Donetsk.
• Ukrainian private energy company DTEK said electricity had been restored to 240,000 households in Odessa after the Russian attack on Saturday night, which damaged some energy infrastructure.
• A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Kursk region killed an 81-year-old man, Russia’s TASS news agency said.
• An official from the Ukrainian security service SBU told Reuters news agency that Ukrainian drones struck the Russian Bashneft oil refinery in Ufa, causing explosions and a fire. The unnamed official said that the attack represents the third time that Ukrainian forces have bombed the facility in Bashkortostan, southwestern Russia, in the past month.

Regional security

• Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom John Healy She said two Royal Air Force planes flew a 12-hour mission earlier this week alongside US and NATO forces to patrol the Russian border. Haley described the joint operation as “significant” and comes after a series of alleged incursions by Russian drones and aircraft into NATO airspace.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky He said in a post on X that he discussed the recent Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy system in a call with US President Donald Trump. He described the discussion as “positive and fruitful,” adding that they also talked about how to strengthen Ukrainian air defenses.

• In a separate Facebook post, Zelensky said he congratulated Trump on his “outstanding” ceasefire plan in the Middle East, while urging him to broker a similar agreement for Russia’s war on Ukraine. If Trump can stop one war, he wrote, “other wars can be stopped, too.”

• Cuba has denied US claims that it has deployed soldiers to fight alongside Russia in its war in Ukraine. It also said that 26 Cubans had been sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 14 years for mercenary activity since September 2023, when reports spread of Cubans being sent to the front in Ukraine.