Here is the situation as of Saturday, November 1, 2025:

Fighting

• According to Vadym Filashkin, the head of Donetsk’s Regional Military Administration, eight people were killed and 18 injured by Russian attacks in the Donetsk area over the past 24 hours.

• Local authorities reported that five individuals died and three more were hurt after two separate vehicles hit explosive devices in a wooded area in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region. Police are currently looking into the details of these incidents.

• In Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Russian military units carried out 673 strikes on 19 towns within a single day. Governor Ivan Fedorov confirmed that at least three people lost their lives and 29 were wounded in the barrage.

• A 56-year-old woman was killed and four others sustained injuries during a Russian artillery attack on the Dnipro district in Ukraine’s Kherson area, according to a regional update.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that approximately 170,000 Russian troops are positioned near the city of Pokrovsk, although he emphasized that the city has not been surrounded.

• Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed to have taken control of Novooleksandrivka, a village located in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. This claim has not been independently confirmed.

• In the Russian-controlled section of Zaporizhia, over 2,000 homes in the town of Kamianka-Dniprovska were left without power following Ukrainian shelling, according to local Russian-installed officials.

• On Friday, Ukraine’s navy said it launched Neptune missiles hitting a Russian thermal power station in the Oryol region and an electrical substation in Novobryansk.

• Ukraine's domestic intelligence chief, Vasyl Maliuk, reported on Friday that Ukrainian forces have attacked 160 Russian oil and energy targets so far this year.

• So far this year, Ukraine has successfully targeted 160 oil and power facilities in Russia, said Vasyl Maliuk, head of Ukraine’s SBU security agency.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Moldova’s legislature appointed Alexandru Munteanu as the country’s new prime minister, marking another move toward European Union membership and distancing itself politically from Russia.

Sanctions

• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed his intention on Friday to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to remove Hungary from U.S. sanctions on Russian oil, citing Hungary’s heavy reliance on energy pipelines. He also pointed out that Germany had sought a similar exemption for one of its refineries.

• Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it has barred additional European Union officials from entering the country, following recent EU sanctions, although it did not disclose any names.

• The European Commission declared on Friday that the recent bans placed by Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia on Ukrainian agricultural imports were unwarranted, since a revised EU-Ukraine trade agreement is now in effect.

Regional Security

• In a first-of-its-kind case, Ukraine transferred a captured Russian soldier accused of torture and unlawful detention to Lithuania for prosecution, marking international involvement in war-related justice efforts.

• Poland reported on Friday that its military aircraft intercepted a Russian surveillance plane over the Baltic Sea for the third time that week. Authorities confirmed the plane did not enter Polish airspace.

• For the third time this week, Polish fighter jets intercepted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. The Polish military confirmed that there was no airspace violation.

Weapons

• According to reports, the Pentagon informed the White House that delivering Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would not weaken U.S. reserves of the weaponry, citing unnamed American and European sources.