Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,345

Here is how things stand on Friday, October 31, 2025:

Fighting

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces took control of the villages of Krasnohirske in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region and Sadove in the Kharkiv region, Russian state news agencies reported.
• Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and other targets on Thursday and in the early hours of Friday, forcing nationwide power restrictions and killing seven people.
• The victims include one person in a village south of Ukraine’s southeastern industrial city of Zaporizhzhia who was killed in a Russian drone strike.
• Regional officials said two men were also killed in Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia itself, while a seven-year-old girl from the central Vinnytsia region died in hospital from injuries sustained in the attacks.
• Prosecutors in the Donetsk region said Russian attacks on dwellings in the city of Kramatorsk killed one person and injured three.
• In Sumy, a city near the northern border with Russia, the regional governor wrote on Telegram that 10 Russian drones attacked the city early on Friday. He said two people were injured when two apartment buildings were hit, and pictures posted online showed several apartments ablaze.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address that a bomb attack on a thermal power plant in Sloviansk in eastern Donetsk region killed two people and injured a number of others.
• Zelenskyy added that Russia launched more than 650 drones and 50 missiles in the attacks. Most of the drones were neutralised and two-thirds of the missiles were downed, he said.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko accused Moscow of targeting Ukrainian people and power supplies as the cold winter months approach. “Its goal is to plunge Ukraine into darkness. Ours is to preserve the light,” Svyrydenko said.

Europe

• Polish MiG-29 fighter aircraft int