The Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 1329 | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Below are the main events from Day 1329 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here’s how things look on Wednesday, October 15, 2025:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched powerful glide bombs and drones into Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in attacks overnight, hitting the city’s main hospital, wounding seven people and forcing the evacuation of 50 patients, Governor Oleh Sinyhopov said.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces took control of the village of Balahan in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
• A convoy of UN vehicles carrying aid supplies came under fire from Russian forces near the town of Belozerka in the Kherson region, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, calling the attack “completely unacceptable.” There were no casualties in the attack on four United Nations trucks, two of which were set on fire by remote-controlled drones.
• Local authorities ordered the evacuation of families from dozens of villages near the city of Kubyansk in northeastern Ukraine, which was completely destroyed, due to the “deteriorating security situation.”
• A total of 409 families with 601 children have been told to leave 27 regions, said Oleh Sinyhopov, governor of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Another official in the affected area later told Sobilny public radio that the list of areas to be evacuated by families had been expanded to 40.
• Russia will reportedly be able to deploy about two million military reserve soldiers to fight in Ukraine if necessary under amendments to a law that the Russian parliament is likely to support.
• Power outages were reported in the Ukrainian capital and other areas late Tuesday due to grid overload and fallout from Russian attacks, the Kyiv city government said. Power was cut off in three areas of central Kyiv on the western bank of the Dnipro River, which passes through the city. Ukrainergo, which operates high-voltage lines in Ukraine, said remaining problems from Russian attacks on the country’s power system led to power outages in areas across northern, central and southeastern Ukraine.
• Work is scheduled to begin this week to restore external power connections to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which has been running on emergency diesel generators for three weeks. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to the international body based in Vienna, told the Russian state news agency that “it is necessary to agree on a local ceasefire in the areas where repair work will be carried out.”

Military aid

• NATO defense ministers are meeting on Wednesday to try to muster more military support for Ukraine amid a sharp decline in arms and ammunition shipments to the war-torn country in recent months.
• European military aid to Ukraine has fallen sharply this summer, despite a recent NATO initiative under which member states bought American weapons and transferred them to Kiev, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy said.
• The UK has delivered more than 85,000 military drones to Ukraine over the past six months, Secretary of State for Defense John Healey said.
• German Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said his country would continue to “financially secure Ukraine’s defense capabilities over the next few years,” while also working with the United States to “significantly increase pressure on (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to end his brutal war of aggression.”

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stripped the mayor of the coastal city of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, of his Ukrainian citizenship after it was discovered that he held Russian citizenship. Trukhanov may now face deportation. Trukhanov denied the allegation, saying: “I am a Ukrainian citizen,” and said he would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Ukraine and, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights.
• Zelensky said he would appoint a military administration to govern Odessa, citing unresolved security concerns. Ukraine prohibits dual citizenship with Russia, and Trukhanov has long faced allegations that he holds both.
• A Kiev government source told AFP news agency that Ukrainian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin had also been stripped of his citizenship. Polunin has been an outspoken supporter of the Russian president. Pro-Kremlin politician Oleg Tsaryov, who survived an assassination attempt in 2023, was among those whose Ukrainian citizenship was revoked, according to Agence France-Presse.
• US President Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Russian leader Putin ahead of Zelensky’s scheduled visit to Washington, D.C., later this week. “I don’t know why he’s continuing this war,” Trump said of Putin.
• Zelensky is scheduled to meet with Trump in Washington, D.C., on Friday, where the two will discuss Ukraine’s air defense and long-range strike capabilities.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko said she focused on Russian attacks on her country’s energy grid during talks this week with US officials.
• Sviridenko described the priorities of her visit to Washington, D.C., as “energy, sanctions, and developing cooperation with the United States in new ways that can strengthen our two countries.”
• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had opened a criminal case against exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other prominent Kremlin critics, accusing them of plotting to seize power violently. The FSB said it was investigating all 22 members of the Russian Anti-War Committee, a group of Russian politicians, businessmen, journalists, lawyers, artists and academics all based outside the country, who oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Regional security

• Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski warned that Europe must be prepared to strike Russia deep into the region, calling it “irresponsible” not to build defenses such as a “drone wall” on its eastern side.
• German Foreign Minister Johan Vadfall accused China of undermining the rules-based international order through its increasingly aggressive policies in Asia and its support for Russia.
• Vadful also criticized Russia, saying Moscow was testing NATO’s resolve, violating EU and NATO airspace, spying on Germany’s critical infrastructure and seeking to influence public discourse with propaganda and disinformation.
• Trump threatened to impose trade sanctions, including tariffs, on Spain, saying he was dissatisfied with its refusal to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, and described the move as disrespectful to NATO.
• Pro-Russian hackers have taken down the German government’s public procurement portal, Seddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on Tuesday. The cyberattack made this important interface between the state and companies inaccessible for about a week, the report said.
• The Swedish government said it would establish its first emergency grain stockpile in the north of the country, an area at risk of being isolated in the conflict. In its 2026 budget, Stockholm plans to invest 575 million kroner ($60 million) to establish grain reserves. Sweden revived its “total defence” strategy in 2015 after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and further measures were taken after Moscow’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

commerce

• European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said the Russian war in Ukraine is bad for US companies that have invested heavily in Europe and whose profits have been affected by the uncertainty created by Moscow’s aggression. In 2023, U.S.-owned assets in Europe are estimated to be worth $19.2 trillion, or roughly 64% of all foreign assets of U.S. companies globally, Dombrovskis said.