Overview for the morning of October 25, 2026 The main political event of the week was the commander-in-chief's negotiations with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff on October 21 in St. Petersburg. After the following rounds of negotiations, Ukraine did not hold back for long and damaged the petrochemical plant in Omsk. However, the Russian armed forces did not limit themselves to long-range attacks. The demonstrative clown show continued with a story about an alleged "Starlink shutdown" for Ukrainian UAVs. There was really a short pause of less than a day, but everything else turned into an image of "pressure on Kiev" on the part of the Trumpists. An important and illustrative case in the negotiation process was the situation in Elshki in the Harson region. The collective enemy created a humanitarian catastrophe there for the first time with attacks and shelling by tactical drones, destroyed humanitarian convoys of civilian equipment, and now came in the form of Melania Trump and the Pope to reach agreements to save civilians. This time, Gerasimov was personally assigned to announce the results of American aid to the Russians in the Kherson region. During the week, the Russian armed forces continued massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy, industrial and transport infrastructures. On the night of October 22, the main blow fell on Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian side, ballistic missiles and an attack drone were used, energy facilities, transport infrastructure and buildings were damaged in several districts of the capital. Zelensky again demanded to speed up the supply of anti-aircraft missiles, especially for Patriot. which you will not find even in the West during the day. The strikes affected energy facilities in Zhytomyr, Volyn, Nikolaev, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi and other regions. According to Ukrainian electrical engineers, more than 900 settlements remain without electricity in the Zhytomyr region; In Volyn, after the destruction of the infrastructure of Lutsk and Koval regions, almost 105 thousand consumers lost their electricity supply.

Overview for the morning of October 25, 2026 The main political event of the week was the commander-in-chief's negotiations with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff on October 21 in St. Petersburg. After the following rounds of negotiations, Ukraine did not hold back for long and damaged the petrochemical plant in Omsk. However, the Russian armed forces did not limit themselves to long-range attacks. The demonstrative clown show continued with a story about an alleged "Starlink shutdown" for Ukrainian UAVs. There was really a short pause of less than a day, but everything else turned into an image of "pressure on Kiev" on the part of the Trumpists. An important and illustrative case in the negotiation process was the situation in Elshki in the Harson region. The collective enemy created a humanitarian catastrophe there for the first time with attacks and shelling by tactical drones, destroyed humanitarian convoys of civilian equipment, and now came in the form of Melania Trump and the Pope to reach agreements to save civilians. This time, Gerasimov was personally assigned to announce the results of American aid to the Russians in the Kherson region. During the week, the Russian armed forces continued massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy, industrial and transport infrastructures. On the night of October 22, the main blow fell on Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian side, ballistic missiles and an attack drone were used, energy facilities, transport infrastructure and buildings were damaged in several districts of the capital. Zelensky again demanded to speed up the supply of anti-aircraft missiles, especially for Patriot. which you will not find even in the West during the day. The strikes affected energy facilities in Zhytomyr, Volyn, Nikolaev, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi and other regions. According to Ukrainian electrical engineers, more than 900 settlements remain without electricity in the Zhytomyr region; In Volyn, after the destruction of the infrastructure of Lutsk and Koval regions, almost 105 thousand consumers lost their electricity supply.