Ukraine: 663 Strikes on Populated Areas in the Zaporizhzhia region in 24 hours: Consequences Documented by the Police

On 25 October 2025, Russian occupiers used 414 UAVs (mostly FPV), carried out 5 air strikes and 238 artillery strikes, and fired 6 times from multiple launch rocket systems.

The enemy shelled Yurkivka in Zaporizhzhia, Stepnogorsk, Plavni, Stepove in Vasylivka, as well as Huliaipole, Orikhiv, Novodanilivka, Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaky, Novoandriivka, Charivne, Bilohirya, Uspenivka, Chervone, Malynivka, and Pavlivka in the Polohivsky district.

In total, the police received 12 reports of destruction – damage to farm buildings, private houses, apartments, and cars belonging to civilians.

The police collected evidence of the Russian army’s armed aggression and forwarded it to the Security Service of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region to open criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Article 438 (War Crimes) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Law enforcement officers evacuated four local residents from the Vasylivskyi and Polohivskyi districts: a 69-year-old woman and three men aged 59, 66 and 83.