Here are the key events from day 1,320 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Published On 5 Oct 2025
Here is how things stand on Monday, October 6, 2025:
Fighting
- A Russian attack killed a family of four, including a 15-year-old girl, in the village of Lapaivka in Ukraine’s Lviv region, the regional prosecutor’s office reported in a post on Facebook.
- The attack on the region in Ukraine’s west, far from the Russian border, also injured several people and targeted gas infrastructure used for heating during a cold snap, the regional administrator’s office wrote in a post on Telegram.
- One person was killed and 10 others injured as Russian forces launched 702 attacks on 18 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region in a day, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
- The attacks left at least 73,000 people without power, with service restored to most people by early afternoon, Fedorov added.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed on Sunday its forces had hit Ukrainian military-industrial facilities as well as gas and energy infrastructure overnight.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a post on Facebook that Russian forces launched more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones at Ukraine overnight into Sunday, targeting the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa and Kirovohrad regions.
- Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Belgorod region left some 40,000 people without power, Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote in a post on Telegram.
- Three people were also injured in Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod, Russia’s TASS state news agency reported.
- Russian forces shot down four Ukrainian guided aerial bombs and 145 drones in a 24-hour period, TASS reported.
Politics and Diplomacy
- In response to a question from reporters about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer last month to voluntarily maintain limits on