Christmas Eve Intent.Insight: 2025 results and a look ahead to 2026

At the end of the year, Intent, together with the team and friends of the editorial office, recalled the most important events, key meanings and challenges that defined 2025 for Odesa, the South and the whole country. These are the people who have been the heroes of our broadcasts, interviews, or expert comments for Accent throughout the year.

This Wednesday, December 24, a special Christmas edition of Intent.Insight began.

Throughout 2025, the project has been a platform for open and honest conversations every Sunday about the main events and challenges that have shaped the life of Odesa and the region. The studio was visited by dozens of guests: politicians, experts, cultural figures, and activists, with whom the project team sought answers to the complex questions of the time.

We also remember the authors and journalists of Intent, who usually stay behind the scenes but shape the content of our media every day.

The festive show will be the result of the year: For three hours, the participants will talk about political, cultural and social events of 2025, as well as try to look into the future and assess the key trends of 2026.

Among the guests of the studio are Anatolii Boyko, head of the Odesa CVU, Maryna Averina, spokesperson for the Odesa Oblast State Emergency Service, Viktoriia Sobko, analyst of the campaign "Certification of Local Council Deputies," journalist Nata Chernetska, curator of the "Past/Future/Art" memory culture platform Oksana Dovgopolova, and writer Maria Galina.

They also included Yevheniia Henova, deputy editor-in-chief of the Intent, Iryna Nechytaliuk, associate professor at ONU, Andrii Krasnazhon, doctor of historical sciences, Serhii Hutsaliuk, historian, Petro Obukhov , deputy of the Odesa City Council, and journalist Mariia Lytianska.

Ether combined the year-end summary with analytics, lively discussions, and a Christmas atmosphere that encourages dialogue and hope.

Viewers can join the discussion by asking their questions during the broadcast or leaving them in the comments. The broadcast will start at 15:00 on the YouTube channel and Intent's Facebook page.

The last weeks of December in Odesa were particularly difficult due to large-scale blackouts that left thousands of families without electricity and water. The main question now is whether this crisis can become a reason to rethink energy and urban infrastructure, and whether there are examples of cities in Ukraine or around the world that are already adapting their energy systems to military threats. In response to these challenges, the Intent.Insight team devoted an episode to the prospects of life support for cities during the war.

Анна Бальчінос