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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced caller sanctions Wednesday (October 22, 2025) against Russia’s 2 biggest lipid companies and blasted Moscow’s refusal to extremity its “senseless war” arsenic U.S.-led efforts to extremity the war floundered and the Ukrainian president sought much overseas subject help.
The sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, arsenic good arsenic dozens of subsidiaries, followed months of bipartisan unit connected President Donald Trump to deed Russia with harder sanctions connected its lipid industry.
“Now is the clip to halt the sidesplitting and for an contiguous ceasefire,” Mr. Bessent said successful a statement. Given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “refusal to extremity this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s 2 largest lipid companies that money the Kremlin’s warfare machine.” Mr. Bessent said the Treasury Department was prepared to instrumentality further enactment if indispensable to enactment Mr. Trump’s effort to extremity the war. “We promote our allies to articulation america successful and adhere to these sanctions.” Mr. Bessent made the comments arsenic NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte was successful Washington for talks with Trump. The subject confederation has been coordinating deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, galore of them purchased from the United States by Canada and European countries.
The announcement came aft Russian drones and missiles blasted sites crossed Ukraine, sidesplitting astatine slightest six people, including a pistillate and her 2 young daughters.
The onslaught came successful waves from Tuesday nighttime into Wednesday and targeted astatine slightest 8 Ukrainian cities, arsenic good arsenic a colony successful the portion of the capital, Kyiv, wherever a onslaught acceptable occurrence to a location successful which the parent and her 6-month-old and 12-year-old daughters were staying, determination caput Mykola Kalashnyk said.
At slightest 29 people, including 5 children, were wounded successful Kyiv, which appeared to beryllium the main target, authorities said.
Russian drones besides deed a kindergarten successful Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, aboriginal Wednesday erstwhile children were successful the building, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. One idiosyncratic was killed and six were hurt, but nary children were physically harmed, helium said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said galore of the children were successful shock. He said the onslaught targeted 10 abstracted regions: Kyiv, Odesa, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy and Sumy.
Russia fired 405 onslaught and decoy drones and 28 missiles, chiefly targeting Kyiv, Ukraine’s aerial unit said.
Peace efforts stall
Mr. Trump’s efforts to extremity the warfare that started with Russia’s all-out penetration of its neighbour much than 3 years agone person failed to summation traction. Trump has repeatedly expressed vexation with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to budge from his conditions for a colony aft Ukraine offered a ceasefire and nonstop bid talks.
Mr. Trump said Tuesday that his program for a swift gathering with Mr. Putin was connected clasp due to the fact that helium didn’t privation it to beryllium a “waste of time.” European leaders accused Mr. Putin of stalling.
Mr. Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Mr. Trump’s connection to frost the struggle wherever it stands connected the beforehand enactment “was a bully compromise” — a measurement that could pave the mode for negotiations.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the planned acme requires cautious preparation, suggesting that laying the groundwork could beryllium protracted. “No 1 wants to discarded time: neither President Trump nor President Putin,” helium said.
In what appeared to beryllium a nationalist reminder of Russian atomic arsenals, Mr. Putin connected Wednesday directed drills of the country’s strategical atomic forces.
Mr. Zelenskyy urged the European Union, the United States and the Group of Seven industrialized nations to unit Russia to the negotiating table. Pressure tin beryllium applied connected Moscow “only done sanctions, long-range (missile) capabilities and coordinated diplomacy among each our partners,” helium said.
More planetary economical sanctions connected Russia are apt to beryllium discussed Thursday astatine an EU acme successful Brussels. On Friday, a gathering of the Coalition of the Willing — a radical of 35 countries that enactment Ukraine — is to instrumentality spot successful London.
Mr. Zelenskyy credited Mr. Trump’s remarks that helium was considering supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for Putin’s willingness to meet. The American president aboriginal said helium was wary of tapping into the U.S. proviso of Tomahawks implicit concerns astir disposable stocks.
Russia has not made important advancement connected the battlefield, wherever a warfare of attrition has taken a precocious toll connected Russian infantry and Ukraine is abbreviated of manpower, subject analysts say. Both sides person invested successful long-range onslaught capabilities to deed rear areas.
Ukraine says it deed cardinal Russian chemic plant
The Ukrainian army’s wide unit said its forces struck a chemic works Tuesday nighttime successful Russia’s Bryansk portion utilizing British-made air-launched Storm Shadow missiles. The works is an important portion of the Russian subject and concern complex, producing gunpowder, explosives, rocket substance and ammunition, it said.
Russian officials successful the portion confirmed an onslaught but did not notation the plant.
Ukraine besides claimed overnight strikes connected the Saransk mechanical works successful Mordovia, Russia, which produces components for ammunition and mines, and the Makhachkala lipid refinery successful the Dagestan republic of Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said its aerial defenses downed 33 Ukrainian drones implicit respective regions overnight, including the country astir St. Petersburg. Eight airports temporarily suspended flights due to the fact that of the attacks.
In different developments, Mr. Zelenskyy arrived Wednesday successful Oslo, Norway, and aft that flew to Stockholm, wherever helium and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson signed an statement exploring the anticipation of Ukraine buying up to 150 Swedish-made Gripen combatant jets implicit the adjacent decennary oregon more. Ukraine has already received American-made F-16s and French Mirages.
Russia’s agelong barrage
Moscow’s overnight onslaught besides targeted vigor infrastructure and caused rolling blackouts, officials said. Russia has been trying to cripple the country’s powerfulness grid earlier wintertime sets in.
“We heard a large detonation and past the solid started to shatter, and past everything was caught up successful a burst of fire. The embers were everywhere,” Olena Biriukova, who lives successful a Kyiv flat building, told The Associated Press.
“It was precise scary for kids,” she said.
Two radical were recovered dormant successful the Dnipro territory of the Ukrainian capital, wherever exigency services rescued 10 radical aft a occurrence caused by drone debris deed the sixth level of a 16-story residential building, section authorities said.
And successful Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, exigency services responded aft drone debris deed a 17-story flat block, causing a occurrence connected 5 floors. Fifteen radical were rescued, including 2 children.
