Overview
- Russia launched nine ballistic missiles and dozens of strike drones overnight, with Kyiv reporting fatalities, at least 12 wounded, fires, and damage to residential sites including a kindergarten.
- Repeated strikes in Dnipropetrovsk region hit Petropavlivska and Pokrovska communities, killing a rescuer and a woman, injuring others, and damaging homes, shops, and emergency vehicles, according to the State Emergency Service.
- Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga and Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko called for stronger air defenses and energy support, saying the attacks targeted civilian and energy infrastructure.
- The General Staff recorded 158 combat engagements on 25 October, including 65 on the Pokrovsk axis where Ukrainian forces reported neutralizing 76 Russian fighters, 60 of them killed.
- Ukraine updated its official tally of Russian losses to about 1,135,990 personnel since the full-scale invasion, alongside further equipment destroyed in the latest reporting.