Here is how things stand on Friday, October 24, 2025:

Fighting

Ukrainian authorities have opened a war crime investigation into an incident in which a witness said Russian forces shot dead five civilians in a village in eastern Ukraine. The Donetsk region’s prosecutor’s office said a man, his two sons and two neighbours were killed on October 20 in Zvanivka, near the front line in Donetsk.

A Russian drone has killed Olena Hubanova and Yevhen Karmazin, journalists with Ukraine’s state-funded Freedom television channel, in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the killing of the journalists, which was branded a war crime by Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman.

Kyiv’s forces struck Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery overnight, Ukraine’s general staff sa

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