Russia suffered approximately 1,134,170 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 23, 2025, with 920 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.

The Czech volunteer initiative Darek pro Putina (A Gift for Putin) raised funds within 48 hours to purchase a Flamingo missile for Ukrainian soldiers, organizer Martin Ondráček told Novinky about this in a comment.

Senior Russian officers are conducting military training for Ukrainian children from the occupied territories and managing child militarisation centres. This refers to the activity of the military-patriotic education centre Voin [Warrior],

The move coincides with a Trump push to pressure Moscow into talks on ending the war and to withhold U.S. Tomahawk missiles from Kyiv.

Ukrainian defenders have eliminated Ivan Us, the son of a former Belarusian presidential candidate. He fought on the Russian side and went missing in the spring of 2025, according to a statement from the Joint Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Exchange of 31 for 1,000 took place. Thirty-one bodies of the deceased were returned to Russia,' says Russian State Duma Deputy Shamsail Saraliev - Anadolu Ajansı

Russian jets violated NATO airspace over Lithuania for 18 seconds during suspected refueling exercise. Nation's president calls it a breach of international law amid tensions.

Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.

EADaily, October 18th, 2025. The cities of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Mirnograd of the Donetsk People's Republic, temporarily occupied by Kiev, are in full operational encirclement of Russian troops.

The Ukrainian defence forces struck strategic facilities belonging to Russia's military-industrial complex on the night of 22-23 October, hitting the Ryazan oil refinery and an ammunition depot in Belgorod Oblast.