Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 973 | News about the Russia-Ukraine war

As we enter the 973rd day of the war, these are the most important developments.

Here is the situation as of Friday, October 25, 2024:

Battle

Russian forces launched drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital overnight, the 15th airstrike on Kiev this month, city officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
One person was killed and nine injured in a Russian attack in the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Three people were killed in a Russian shelling around the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, said Governor Vadym Filashkin on the messaging app Telegram.
Two people were killed in a Russian attack on a branch of the Nova Poshta delivery service in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, near the frontline towns of Chasiv Yar and Kostiantynivka, Filashkin said.
Russian media and war bloggers reported that Russian forces had advanced into the coal mining town of Selydove, about 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Pokrovsk.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that the most intense Russian attacks along the front line were currently taking place on the Pokrovsk Front, including near Selydove. However, it was not said whether Russian soldiers had entered the city.
Ukraine said Russian forces executed four captured Ukrainian soldiers in Donetsk.
According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the first North Korean units trained in Russia were stationed in Kursk, a Russian border region where Ukrainian forces made a surprise invasion in August.

South Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed “great concern” after Russia moved to ratify its defense deal with North Korea and called on Moscow to end its “illegal cooperation” with Pyongyang.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tokyo was monitoring reports with “grave concern” that North Korean troops were in Russia ahead of their possible deployment to Ukraine.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Russian President Vladimir Putin that his invasion of neighboring Ukraine violated the UN Charter and international law, according to a readout of their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan.
Putin said any peace proposals with Ukraine must take into account territory held by Russian forces, stressing that negotiations must be “based on the realities on the ground.”
He also said he welcomed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's “sincere” statements about ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, criticized Guterres for his meeting with Putin and called the Russian president a “murderer.”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected Ukraine's request to join NATO immediately, made by President Volodymyr Zelensky as he presented his “victory plan” to Western allies, saying a country at war “absolutely cannot become a member” of the bloc.