{"id":28816,"date":"2025-10-18T01:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=28816"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:37:37","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1332-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=28816","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,332 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Here are the key events from day 1,332 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 18 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">18 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Here is how things stand on Saturday, October 18, 2025:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fighting\">Fighting<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukrainian shelling killed two adults and a 10-year-old child in Russian-occupied Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed governor of the region, wrote in a post on Telegram.<\/li>\n<li>Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region killed a 38-year-old man and injured four others, the regional administration wrote in a post on Telegram.<\/li>\n<li>Russian attacks also injured at least eight people in Ukraine\u2019s Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, according to local officials.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s Special Operations Forces claimed a Ukrainian drone attack destroyed an oil depot and a gas treatment plant in Russian-occupied Crimea on Friday night.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian-installed governor of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said that a Ukrainian drone attack damaged several electrical substations in the Russian-occupied region, according to Russia\u2019s state-run TASS news agency.<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces shelled Ukraine\u2019s Chernihiv region 68 times in a 24-hour period, causing fires at a logging company and damaging residential areas, Regional Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.<\/li>\n<li>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called for relevant United Nations bodies to condemn the Ukrainian attack that killed Russian war correspondent Ivan Zuyev and seriously wounded his colleague in southern Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhia region on Thursday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"politics-and-diplomacy\">Politics and diplomacy<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>United States President Donald Trump met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, telling reporters he was optimistic about ending the war. \u201cI think we have a chance of ending the war quickly if flexibility is shown,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy congratulated Trump on his \u201csuccessful ceasefire\u201d in the Middle East, saying that while \u201cPutin is not ready\u201d, he is confident that with Trump\u2019s \u201chelp, we can stop this war, and we really need it\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Trump did not commit to Zelenskyy\u2019s request for Tomahawk missiles, which are precise, long-range projectiles that Kyiv is seeking in order to strike deep into Russia, saying doing so \u201ccould mean big escalation\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Trump also told reporters that Zelenskyy will \u201cbe in touch\u201d during upcoming negotiations in Hungary, where the US president will meet with Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin.<\/li>\n<li>Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said his country would allow Putin to attend the planned summit with Trump in Budapest, despite the Russian leader facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Hungary is in the process of leaving.<\/li>\n<li>Kirill Dmitriev, Putin\u2019s investment envoy, proposed building a \u201cUS-Russia link via the Bering Strait\u201d in a post on X, also suggesting that the undersea tunnel connecting Russia and the US could be built together with billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s The Boring Company.<\/li>\n<li>Asked about the tunnel proposal on Friday, Trump said it was \u201cinteresting\u201d, while Zelenskyy said: \u201cI\u2019m not happy with this idea.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a call with Zelenskyy after his White House meeting, where he \u201creiterated their unwavering commitment to Ukraine in the face of ongoing Russian aggression\u201d, according to a summary of the call published by Downing Street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"regional-security\">Regional Security<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the key events from day 1,332 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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