War for Ukraine Day 1,405: Odesa
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I’m going to try to keep tonight on the shorter side. I’ve felt BLEH!!!! for the past week or so. It’s not COVID, I keep testing negative. Up until today I really had no symptoms other than wanting to sleep all day. However, I’ve not got a wee bit of congestion. So I’m just going to run through the basics and then go and rack out. Also, for those keeping score at home, I am very full of soup.
Here are tonight’s outgoing Ukrainian fires:
Moscow, get ready. Monitoring channels report that a large number of attack and jet-powered drones are already in the air.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We’re still getting fallout from Putin’s untrue agitprop aimed at getting Trump to make life much, much more difficult for the Ukrainians.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha: “We were disappointed and concerned to see the statements by Emirati, Indian, and Pakistani sides expressing their concerns regarding the attack that never happened.”
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Indeed. Russia has been bombing Ukraine, and everyone watches it almost like reality TV. They burn entire families in their beds, murder churchgoers on Easter, and bomb working kindergartens. Yet instead of acting against this, everyone is preoccupied with an attack that never even happened. Shame.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Future historians will wonder why the victims of colonialism sided so cheaply with a white coloniser who rules 1/3 of the Asian land mass from a city in Europe.
— Darth Putin (@darthputinkgb.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
US Security guarantees to Ukraine are meaningless if I can lie this blatantly to Donald and he just believes me.
— Darth Putin (@darthputinkgb.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The invented drone attack on Putin’s residence is another pretext to justify Russia’s war.
Putin has done this before, including in 2022 and 2014, and he will do it again if he gets the chance.
This is why RELIABLE security guarantees are critical for a just and lasting peace.
— Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it
— Darth Putin (@darthputinkgb.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Russia mobilizes 43,000 people every month, but this year the size of its army has stopped growing for the first time.” – Zelenskyy.
He stated that this year the size of the Russian army has, for the first time, ceased to increase, which could become a prerequisite for ending the war in 2026.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Here’s the full video of President Zelenskyy’s interview with Fox News:
President Zelenskyy is back in Ukraine, but he did not make an address today. He did present housing certificates to Heroes of Ukraine and Ukrainian gold star families. Video below, English write up after the jump.
President Presented 20 Housing Certificates to Heroes of Ukraine and Families of Fallen Heroes
30 December 2025 – 11:00
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented 20 certificates for apartments to the Heroes of Ukraine and to the families of warriors who were awarded this title posthumously.
The Head of State thanked the warriors and their families, who raised such heroes, for their courage, perseverance, and determination.
“We are continuing the tradition of Ukrainian state gratitude – gratitude to our military, gratitude to our Heroes of Ukraine who distinguished themselves in defending our state, our positions, our sovereignty, and our people. Ukraine is a state forged by the courage of Ukrainians,” the President said.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on everyone to remember the price at which freedom is won. Those present honored all who gave their lives for the Homeland with a moment of silence.
“The Ukrainian home will always be on the political map of the world. It is extremely important that in our shared home every Ukrainian hero has a home of their own. This is the least the state can do to say thank you,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted.
The President presented nine housing certificates to the families of fallen warriors and eleven – personally to the Heroes of Ukraine.
They are servicemembers of the Air Force, the Territorial Defense Forces, the Land Forces, the Airborne Assault Forces, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service, and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. They distinguished themselves in defending the skies over Odesa and the Odesa region, in battles in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions, during the operation in the Kursk region, and while eliminating the consequences of enemy attacks on Poltava and the Poltava region.
Georgia:
Day 398 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia.
Tomorrow, we’ll ring in New Year’s Eve together. On New Year’s Day, we’ll mark 400 days of nonstop protests.
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here Nikola is again, giving an interview to the press on his dad’s behalf.
Lika Zakashvili
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The tiny, snow-covered town of Chkhorotsku is one of 8+ places across Georgia where people gather to protest every single day.
On January 1, we mark day 400 of nonstop protests.
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A protest in front of the Supreme Court of Georgia in support of opposition leader @Helenkhosh, jailed since September for writing on a Georgian Dream banner in solidarity with a young female protester detained for the same act.
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Video “evidence” presented by the prosecution (the first minute of a 35-minute clip) to prove that Georgian protesters “blocked pedestrian movement.”
23 people face up to 15 days in jail for peacefully protesting on a sidewalk. Hearings resume in January.
Via former GYLA chair Nika Simonishvili
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The horrific “crime” for which 61-year-old Zurab Menteshashvili has spent two months in jail, on a hunger strike.
He faces up to a year in prison for peacefully standing at a protest.
His next hearing begins soon.
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My friend, Girchi – More Freedom member Gela Khasaia came to Tbilisi to contribute to the bright future of his homeland from Sokhumi, Russian-occupied breakaway Abkhazia, where very few are raised as Georgians after the brutal ethnic cleansing/genocide.
He’s now jailed by the Russian regime in
.
— Marika Mikiashvili
(@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
— Marika Mikiashvili
The PRC:
Foreign Ministry of China on Ukraine’s alleged “attack” on Putin’s residence:
“War should not be resolved on the battlefield. Dialogue and negotiations are the only realistic way out of the Ukrainian crisis. All parties should work to reduce tensions and create conditions for a political settlement”— Maria Drutska (Adam L Silvermanمصدر
Saint James Talarico (he/him)
David Harsanyi, Washington Examinerمصدر …
