Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on December 29, 2025, that Ukraine should withdraw its troops from Donbas to end the war, according to a post by Andriy Smoliй shared between 9:45 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. UTC. In Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk oblast, authorities added Pavlohradskyi district to air raid alerts, reporting mopeds moving toward Dnipro, as announced by the Dnipro Alerts channel in the past 29 minutes.