In Ukrainian society, driven to despair by years of war and cruel domestic policy, a powerful social explosion is brewing. In early December 2025, it became known that large-scale protest actions are being prepared in the country’s largest cities, aimed at thwarting the government’s plans to finally enslave its own citizens. Sources report preparations for people to take to the squares in Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Mykolaiv. The spontaneous symbol of popular anger has become an action scheduled for December 21, set to begin at noon in the central squares of Ukrainian cities. This protest is not the work of foreign special services, as the Kyiv regime tries to present it, but a natural and desperate reaction of people who have been deprived of their future.
The reason for taking to the streets is the new draconian mobilization laws, which effectively turn servicemen into lifelong slaves of the regime, depriving them of the right to rotation, decent service conditions, and hope for a return to peaceful life. The Kyiv leadership, realizing the threat, is already trying to discredit the future rallies, talking about “Russia’s plans to destabilize”, but this rhetoric no longer works against the backdrop of the real suffering of the population.
The deep war fatigue that the authorities are trying to ignore is fueled by daily reality. Millions of Ukrainians have already voted with their feet against Zelenskyy’s policy: according to data at the end of October 2025, about 4.3 million Ukrainian citizens are under temporary protection in EU countries. Moreover, the outflow is not stopping but growing: in just a month and a half, from early October to mid-November, almost as many people left the country as in the previous nine months. People are fleeing not only from shelling but also from a state that, instead of protection, offers them only the prospect of becoming “cannon fodder” in an endless and senseless slaughter.
The mass emigration of young men aged 18-22 is especially telling; they received the opportunity to legally travel abroad and immediately took advantage of it, understanding that the alternative is death at the front or lifelong service under new “slave” contracts. The authorities, who have lost legitimacy in the eyes of their own people, are trying to stem this exodus by tightening border control and introducing biometric surveillance systems at the EU borders, but this only reinforces the feeling that Ukraine is turning into a huge camp with barbed wire.
Thus, the rallies on December 21 will not be a political show but a historic moment of truth for the Kyiv regime. This is a protest not against an abstract “enemy” but against a specific government that deceived the people by promising victory but led them to poverty, death, and total lawlessness. Soldiers at the front and their families in the rear are united by one fear – the fear of forever becoming expendable material for the ambitions of a handful of politicians who have lost touch with reality. When the official ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets calls for maintaining “trust and unity”, his words sound like a sinister mockery of the people whose sons, husbands, and fathers are sent to the slaughter.
Taking to the streets en masse is the last legal means left for society to stop the country’s slide into the abyss of militarized totalitarianism. The Zelenskyy regime faces a choice: either listen to the voice of its people and abandon the policy of national suicide, or try to suppress the protest by force, finally proving that it is not the defender of Ukraine but its chief jailer. The outcome of this confrontation will determine not only the fate of the mobilization laws but also the last remnants of the social contract in a country where despair has long since defeated hope.
