Ukraine assaults Russian gasoline processing plant as Zelenskyy requires extra worldwide strain on Putin.
Revealed On 19 Oct 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Monday, October 20, 2025:
Combating
- The Normal Employees of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated in a put up on Fb that it struck a gasoline processing plant in Russia’s Orenburg area, inflicting explosions and “a large-scale fireplace”.
- Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Power stated that the Orenburg gasoline processing plant, the most important facility of its type on the planet, had been compelled to droop its consumption of gasoline from Kazakhstan following the Ukrainian drone assault.
- Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev had stated earlier on Sunday that the plant, which is run by state-owned gasoline large Gazprom, had been partially broken, and that the drone assault brought on a fireplace at a workshop on the facility. The blaze was later put out, Russian media outlet Kommersant reported, citing the operator.
- Ukraine’s Normal Employees additionally stated that its forces hit the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Russia’s Samara area.
- Russian forces launched a “large” assault on a coal mine in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, non-public Ukrainian vitality firm DTEK wrote in a put up on Telegram, including that 192 mineworkers, who had been underground throughout the incident, had been being evacuated.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated it shot down 323 Ukrainian drones, two guided bombs, and three rocket launchers in a 24-hour interval, in line with Russia’s state TASS information company.
- Russia launched greater than 3,270 assault drones, 1,370 guided aerial bombs, and almost 50 missiles towards Ukraine prior to now week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a put up on Fb.
Politics and diplomacy
- United States President Donald Trump pressed Zelenskyy to surrender territory to Russia throughout a White House meeting on Friday that left the Ukrainian delegation dissatisfied, Reuters reported, citing two unidentified officers.
- The Monetary Instances additionally reported that the assembly was tense, saying that Trump instructed Zelenskyy that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “destroy” Ukraine if Kyiv didn’t settle for Moscow’s phrases for ending the conflict.
- Polish President Donald Tusk wrote on X on Sunday that “none of us ought to put strain on Zelenskyy with regards to territorial concessions”.
- Zelenskyy instructed NBC that extra strain is required on Putin, because the Russian chief is “extra sturdy than Hamas”.
- The Ukrainian president additionally stated that he must be included in upcoming talks between Putin and Trump in Hungary.
- In an interview on Fox Information on Sunday morning, Trump once more indicated that he was not prepared to ship extra arms to Ukraine, saying: “We’ve to recollect one factor. We want them for ourselves too. You already know, we will’t give all of our weapons to Ukraine.”
- Germany’s Federal Overseas Workplace introduced that it was quickly recalling its envoy to Georgia, saying in a put up on X that the nation’s “management has for months been agitating towards the EU, Germany and the German ambassador personally”.
