Here are the key events from day 1,321 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Published On 7 Oct 2025
Here is how things stand on Tuesday, October 7, 2025:
Fighting
- The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that “two rounds of shelling struck around 1.25 km” [less than a mile] from the perimeter of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Monday afternoon.
- IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warned the attacks came as the plant has been running on emergency diesel generators for almost two weeks after losing its external power source. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of being behind recent attacks near the nuclear power station.
- Ukrainian drones hit the Feodosia oil terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea on Monday night causing a “large-scale fire”, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a post on Telegram.
- A Russian attack hit the roof of a perinatal centre in Sumy, causing it to catch fire, the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said in a post on Telegram. The babies, patients and employees had evacuated to a bomb shelter before the attack, Yermak added.
- Russian shelling killed two people and injured five others in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, the region’s governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a post on Telegram.
- Russian forces launched drone attacks, air strikes and artillery shelling on Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing one person and injuring three others, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
- A Russian attack killed one person and injured 11 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, governor Ivan Fedorov wrote in a post on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian missile attack killed two people in Russia’s Belgorod region, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency.
- A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russian-occupied Luhansk, the Russian installed regional government reported in a post on Telegram.
Regional security
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