🇪🇺🇺🇦 EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova:

💬 “I love forests. I'm used to finding mushrooms or the first spring flowers there. This time I found a large piece of a Shahed drone. This is how war changes a country. This is the reality in Ukraine today.”

🇮🇷 Iran intends to classify countries as hostile, neutral or friendly. Hostile countries will not be allowed passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Neutral countries will need to pay a fee, - Al Jazeera

Since the start of the war, 400 million barrels of oil has been removed from the international market. Just before the war, nearly 20 percent of crude oil and 20 percent of LNG passed through the Strait of Hormuz. This has now dropped to 5 percent of normal levels.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: This week alone, Russia used more than 3,000 strike drones against our cities and communities – a significant portion of them “shaheds” – as well as over 1,450 guided aerial bombs and 40 missiles of various types.

We need to build joint and modern defense systems proven in war. We must develop joint production of modern and effective weapons. We must unite our capabilities so that people can live in peace in Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the world.

💬 While he did not contradict Rubio's statements, Zelensky made it clear that as he understands it, an "end to the war" is synonymous with #Ukraine's withdrawal from Donbas under the current framework of the peace negotiations.

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#usa #russia

🇺🇦 62% of Ukrainians oppose transfer of Donbas to Russia in exchange for security guarantees, - KIIS poll

The vast majority of Ukrainians — 71% — do not believe that negotiations will lead to peace.

52% of Ukrainians are ready to endure war as long as necessary.

Reminder:

Kyiv ✅ Kiev ❌
Odesa ✅ Odessa ❌
Zaporizhzhia ✅ Zaporozhye ❌
Mykolaiv ✅ Nikolaev ❌
Kharkiv ✅ Kharkov ❌
Luhansk ✅ Lugansk ❌
Lviv ✅ Lvov ❌
Chornobyl ✅ Chernobyl ❌
Bakhmut ✅ Artemovsk ❌
Dnipro ✅ Dnieper ❌
Donbas ✅ Donbass ❌

🇺🇦🇮🇷 Russia supplies Iran with drones to attack US forces and allies in the Middle East, — Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky stated this in an interview with Radio France:

💬These are Shahed drones, manufactured on Russian territory. Previously, Iran transferred drones to Russia, and now they are doing the opposite. Russia is an ally of the Iranian regime.💬

The President of Ukraine also said that Putin benefits from the rise in oil prices

🇺🇦🇺🇸 About 200,000 Ukrainian refugees in the US are currently in a vulnerable position, where they could be expelled from the country at any moment.

There is information about at least several dozen Ukrainian refugees detained by the ICE and the death of one Ukrainian citizen in the ICE prison in Miami.

Ukrainians, with whom BBC News Ukraine spoke, say that they are being detained and deported in America despite the fact that they have humanitarian status.

Sunday morning. russia is attacking Kharkiv with Iranian Shahed drones.

Same drones. Different reaction.

🇺🇦 I am not a dictator, and I did not start a war, that's all, — Zelenskyy commented on Trump's old accusations of dictatorship.

▪️Putin has already started the Third World War, and Ukraine is not allowing it to become global.
▪️Ukraine's victory is not only about territory, but also about preserving people and independence.
▪️Returning to the fair borders of 1991 is a victory for justice.
▪️The retreat in Donetsk will divide society, and Putin will not stop.

Trump told the military to use American cities as "training grounds". He told soldiers not to help their black or transgender minority colleagues. He told them to forget the NATO military alliance and pitched the option of attacking an allied country. He demeaned their international comrades from Afghanistan. And he ridiculed the fallen.

I predict, when the revolution comes, and revolutionaries close in on The White House, Trump will call the military, only to realize they have already arrived.

🇺🇦❗️Zelensky: The main targets that Russia is currently hitting are our energy, critical infrastructure, and residential buildings.

This week alone, the Russians have launched over 1,700 strike drones, more than 1,380 guided bombs, and 69 missiles of various types.

Today in Vilnius, we are coordinating with our partners in the region, Lithuania and Poland. We are working with every leader to strengthen Ukraine.

🚑🇺🇦 Ukrainian ambulance attacked by Russians in Kharkiv region on display in Davos

A damaged ambulance was displayed near the World Economic Forum venue.

DW meets a young girl in Nuuk. She is holding her drawing of a Greenlandic flag and tells the journalist,
“Donald Trump is trying to take our world”. 💔

Stop this evil man.

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😡 Over 50,000 people left without electricity due to Russian night strike on Dnipro, - Mayor Filatov

In total, 9 high-rise buildings were damaged. About 400 windows were broken. Garages and cars were also damaged.

🤬 A former Wagner soldier tells how his unit killed 7 Ukrainian children during an assault on a school in the village of Bakhmutske in the Donetsk region.

The occupiers took the bodies and buried them in the Wagner cemetery.

He also says that the commander of the 37th Motorized Rifle Regiment ordered his men to be killed and listed as missing after the assaults.

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Moscow court sentences Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of independent #Russia outlet Meduza, to five years in prison in absentia on charges of leading an “undesirable” organization

#Ukraine #UkraineWar

🇺🇦 December 2018. On the main square of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, 2,888 Ukrainians simultaneously sang "Shchedryk", setting a national record.

💔 December 2025. The city in which the world-famous melody was written was turned into ruins.

📹 Video - Donbas.Realii

🇻🇦🕊️ Pope offers '24 hours of peace' after massive Russian attacks on Ukraine

According to Vatican News, Pope said: 'It is truly deeply saddening that Russia has apparently rejected the request for a Christmas truce.'

"I hope we will be heard, and may these 24 hours be one day of peace for the whole world."

😳 Residents of Mariupol are recording mass appeals to Putin because they were thrown out onto the streets and not given new housing to replace the destroyed ones, as promised by the occupiers.

Russia first seized and destroyed their homes, and now it's building housing for sale in their place. Tens of thousands of people have become homeless—and no one cares. Russians don't consider them human beings.