Ukraine assaults Russian fuel processing plant as Zelenskyy requires extra worldwide stress on Putin.
Printed On 19 Oct 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Monday, October 20, 2025:
Combating
- The Basic Workers of Ukraine’s Armed Forces mentioned in a publish on Fb that it struck a fuel processing plant in Russia’s Orenburg area, inflicting explosions and “a large-scale hearth”.
- Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Vitality mentioned that the Orenburg fuel processing plant, the most important facility of its sort on this planet, had been pressured to droop its consumption of fuel from Kazakhstan following the Ukrainian drone assault.
- Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev had mentioned earlier on Sunday that the plant, which is run by state-owned fuel big Gazprom, had been partially broken, and that the drone assault induced a fireplace at a workshop on the facility. The blaze was later put out, Russian media outlet Kommersant reported, citing the operator.
- Ukraine’s Basic Workers additionally mentioned that its forces hit the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Russia’s Samara area.
- Russian forces launched a “huge” assault on a coal mine in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, non-public Ukrainian vitality firm DTEK wrote in a publish on Telegram, including that 192 mineworkers, who have been underground in the course of the incident, have been being evacuated.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned it shot down 323 Ukrainian drones, two guided bombs, and three rocket launchers in a 24-hour interval, in response to 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 publish 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 upset, Reuters reported, citing two unidentified officers.
- The Monetary Instances additionally reported that the assembly was tense, saying that Trump advised Zelenskyy that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “destroy” Ukraine if Kyiv didn’t settle for Moscow’s phrases for ending the warfare.
- Polish President Donald Tusk wrote on X on Sunday that “none of us ought to put stress on Zelenskyy with regards to territorial concessions”.
- Zelenskyy advised NBC that extra stress is required on Putin, because the Russian chief is “extra robust than Hamas”.
- The Ukrainian president additionally mentioned 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 keen to ship extra arms to Ukraine, saying: “We’ve got to recollect one factor. We’d like them for ourselves too. You realize, we are able to’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 publish on X that the nation’s “management has for months been agitating towards the EU, Germany and the German ambassador personally”.
