Russia loses 890 more soldiers in Ukraine war over past 24 hours
Russia suffered approximately 1,131,070 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 20, 2025, with 890 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
20 October 2025
Russia suffered approximately 1,131,070 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 20, 2025, with 890 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
The White Angels special police unit, operating in the Dnipropetrovsk region, has evacuated over 2,400 people in the past six months, including 577 children.
Washington has decided to appoint Secretary of State Marco Rubio, instead of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, to head the delegation that will conduct talks with Moscow ahead of the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has said that the Trump administration will continue pursuing the path toward peace in Ukraine, no matter how long it takes.
Russian strikes on the power system in the Chernihiv region have left more than 30,000 consumers without electricity.
The majority of Russia's territory is experiencing problems related to a shortage of petroleum products.
In the Odesa region, servicemen from a Ukrainian Navy unit discovered and neutralized a Russian naval mine.
A Russian embassy car in Poland lost control on one of Warsaw's busy roads, crashed into barriers, and overturned.
Russian troops are attempting to create so-called “kill zones” — areas where nothing remains intact — to later conduct assault operations and advance.
In Zaporizhzhia region, military personnel from one of the brigades of the ‘East’ Air Command have received equipment and machinery worth over UAH 7 million.
Due to the need to fund its military budget, Russian business no longer has the resources for development, and entire industries may face collapse in the near future.
19 October 2025
No one should pressure Ukraine into making territorial concessions — instead, pressure should be applied to Russia to make it end its aggression.
On October 19, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 151 combat clashes with Russian troops, with the heaviest fighting — 53 attacks — occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russia is betting heavily on disinformation because it cannot win on the battlefield. In particular, despite overall budget cuts, Russian state spending on propaganda will increase by 54%.
All workers trapped underground at the DTEK coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region following a Russian attack have been brought safely to the surface.
The European Union is moving closer to a decision to train Ukrainian military personnel inside the country and to expand other forms of support, including border monitoring, assistance to veterans, and boosting cybersecurity.
Russian troops shelled Kherson’s Central district at around 18:45, wounding two men who have since been taken to hospital.
Russia carried out a massive attack on a DTEK coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region, where 192 miners were underground at the time. Evacuation efforts are ongoing.
Russian forces on Sunday attacked an energy facility in the Koriukivka district, Chernihiv region, leaving nearly 55,000 consumers without power.
On Monday, October 20, Ukraine's national power grid operator Ukrenergo will implement power limitation schedules for industrial consumers in all regions of Ukraine.
On October 19, Russian forces attacked four districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region using drones.
One civilian was killed and four others were injured in the Kherson region over the course of the day as a result of Russian aggression.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the United States cannot give Ukraine all the weapons that Kyiv wants, as the country needs them for its own defense.
On the morning of October 19, Russian forces shelled one of the settlements in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing a 71-year-old local resident.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a meeting in Washington on October 17 that he was ready to join U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Budapest.
Since Sunday morning, 76 combat engagements have taken place in Ukraine, most of them in the Pokrovsk sector (26) and the Kostiantynivka sector (15).
Ukraine has presented the United States with proposals concerning gas infrastructure and nuclear power generation, and work on the details is now underway.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed Ukrainian diplomats to prepare a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in the near future.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is preparing certain actions on the front line and responding to every Russian attack.
Russian ships and submarines are currently absent from the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.