Here are the key events from day 1,331 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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Here is how things stand on Friday, October 17, 2025:

Russian war correspondent Ivan Zuyev has been killed by a Ukrainian drone strike while on assignment on the front line of the war in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, his publication, state news agency RIA said. Zuyev’s colleague, Yuri Voitkevich, was seriously wounded in the attack.