From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (394th day):
I want to share some big numbers. Don’t let the size of those numbers numb you to the immense pain they represent!
As of the morning of March 23, 2023, 465 children died and more than 940 were injured of various degrees of severity in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Ruzzzian Federation. These numbers are not final. Every time we hear numbers of civilian casualties, we remind ourselves that Mariupol alone might multiply these numbers significantly. There are other cities, towns, and villages that continue suffering under occupation. The victims in those places are not counted yet.
The count of victims of this invazzion is not only among injured and killed. During the ruzzzian invazzion of Ukraine, ruzzzia has forcibly transferred thousands of Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into ruzzzian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.
Ukrainian children have been abducted by the Russian state after their parents had been arrested by ruzzzian occupation authorities or killed in the invasion, or after becoming separated from their parents in an active war zone. Children have also been abducted from Ukrainian state institutions in occupied areas, and through children’s “summer camps” on ruzzzian territory. The abducted children have been subject to ruzzification, raising children of war in a foreign nation and culture may constitute an act of genocide if intended to erase their national identity. Estimates of the number of children involved range from 16,000 to 300,000.
The size of this crime again children is so immense that International Criminal Court issued two arrest warrants at the same time – for Putin and for Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
Ukrainian children are injured, killed, and abducted and millions continue being traumatized by frequent bombings, and daily air raids ,by spending many hours in school bomb shelters.
There are 16 million Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced; a significant part of that number are children. They had to flee from their homes, and many were separated from their fathers.
And this is a crime that is still ongoing. The numbers of killed, injured and abducted children keep growing…
Voice of Ukraine 
2 responses to “3/26/2023 – “Kids” of Ukraine”
I pray that many of these children would be like Daniel in the Bible, receiving the enemy’s “instruction” through the sanctifying screen of God’s eternal word. Daniel stayed true to his God; may these children also know and stand firm to God’s word!
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Daniel 1: In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand… Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility— young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king’s service.
Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
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