Introducing the main events of the 1,342nd day of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Published October 28, 2025
Here’s what happened on Tuesday, October 28, 2025:
finding
A 44-year-old man was killed and several others injured in a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhya, southern Ukraine, Governor Ivan Fedorov announced on Monday, as the death toll from Sunday’s other attacks continued to rise. Ukrainian officials said Sunday’s attacks killed two people in the eastern Donetsk region and a 69-year-old man in the northern Sumy region. Fifteen other people, including two children, were injured, Sumy police said. Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Service (HUR) claimed that Lieutenant Vasily Marzoyev, the son of a Russian general, was killed using a guided air bomb. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report. The driver was killed and five passengers were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian minibus in the village of Pogar in Bryansk region, Russia’s state news agency TASS reported, citing Governor Alexander Bogomaz.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian troops have captured the Ukrainian village of Yekhorivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. However, Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported that Ukrainian forces had cleared Russian troops from the village. Al Jazeera could not independently verify either claim.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also announced that Russian troops had captured the villages of Novomykolavka and Privornoye in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region, according to TASS news agency.
TASS also reported that the ministry said that Russian forces shot down 350 Ukrainian drones, two guided missiles and seven rocket launchers in the past 24 hours. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry’s report on Ukraine found that Russian drone strikes were used “as part of a coordinated policy to expel civilians from (Ukrainian) territory” and amounted to “a crime against humanity of forced displacement.” The report said civilians were tracked over long distances by camera-equipped drones and sometimes attacked with incendiary and explosive devices as they evacuated.
politics and diplomacy
US President Donald Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the war in Ukraine rather than test nuclear missiles, adding that the US has nuclear-powered submarines off the coast of Russia. The comments came a day after President Putin said Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was nothing in the missile test to strain relations with the United States and that Russia was acting in its own national interests. Norway’s military intelligence agency said Russia’s Burevestnik missile test was launched from the Novaya Zemlya Islands in the Barents Sea. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the US-based Axios news agency that Kiev and its allies had agreed to work on a cease-fire plan in the next 10 days, following President Trump’s recent proposal to stop the war on current lines. President Putin on Monday signed legislation ending the already-expired plutonium disposal agreement with the United States, which was aimed at preventing both sides from building further nuclear weapons.
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met with President Putin in the Kremlin on Monday to discuss strengthening cooperation with Russia, North Korean state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
KCNA said the meeting discussed “a number of upcoming projects to continuously strengthen and develop” bilateral ties, and Choe also conveyed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s “fraternal consideration” for President Putin. Meanwhile, the Russian leader asked Choi to tell Kim that “everything was going according to plan” during the meeting.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will discuss U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies and other issues when he meets with President Trump in Washington next week, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday.
regional security
Lithuania will begin shooting down stowaway balloons crossing the border from Belarus, a close ally of Russia, after the balloons repeatedly disrupted air traffic in the Baltic nation, Prime Minister Inga Luginiene announced on Monday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the helium balloons over Lithuania were a “provocation” and a “multiple threat”, adding in a post on X that the balloons were another reason to accelerate the European Union’s eastern flank surveillance and European drone defense efforts.
weapons
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has released a list detailing the origins of 68 foreign components used in Russian missiles and other weapons, saying they came from China, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
