From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 690):
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psalm 90:14
This still needs an official confirmation, but the media cite their sources, saying that Ukraine shot down a Russian A-50 Airborne Early Warning and Control System aircraft (AWACS) and damaged an airborne command center. The A-50 radar detects, identifies, and tracks airborne targets (up to 200 targets simultaneously) and warships at sea. Data is then transferred to command centers to be passed on to fighter jets and missile launchers, coordinating up to 30 of them.
If this is true, it will significantly improve Ukraine’s security as the aircraft will have limited ability to track the location of our air-defense systems that they are after.
Following the security agreement signed by the UK and Ukraine, the rest of G7, the Netherlands, and Romania started negotiations regarding security guarantees the countries are willing to provide until Ukraine joins NATO. We hope that this new wave of long-term international support will send a strong signal to Russia and other countries (such as China, Iran, or North Korea) that might be considering invading a neighbor.
Voice of Ukraine 
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A year ago:
From Clay Quaertermain-
Our friend directing from Odesa. Salve Ukraine!
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June 30, 2023
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 491):
By this I know that you delight in me:
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
But you have upheld me because of my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
Psalm 41:11-12
I wish we could collect all the miracle stories of this war as a testimony of God’s goodness. I wish we could trace the lives of all the people who witnessed God’s power and see how these encounters affected their life paths.
Today, I read a story (by Reporters.) of a 16-year-old Mykyta from Bakhmut. They say his story is told and retold in the Lviv hospital as a miracle story.
Mykyta was one of the few minors who stayed in Bakhmut for so long. They kept putting off evacuation, but when life became unbearable, they packed their belongings and were ready to leave. It was January. Mykyta took his 14-year-old nephew and went to get some water from a local water station. That’s when that location was shelled. His nephew died on the spot, and Mykyta was severely wounded. His arms and legs were fractured, and he had a chest injury, a broken rib, a broken shoulder blade, and a damaged left lung. A man found him and took him to a military medical point near Bakhmut, but it was overflowing with wounded soldiers, so the boy received some urgent care and was sent to the next big city. Having passed through several hospitals, he ended up in Lviv. Mykyta was barely conscious this whole time and kept wondering if he would ever see his mom again. Thankfully, the Ukrainian military helped her evacuate the next day.
In Lviv, the doctors removed a three-centimeter-long (1.2″) metal fragment from Mykyta’s chest. The fragment was a hundredth of a millimeter from the heart at the time of the surgery. The operating surgeons say it’s a miracle that the fragment did not damage the two major heart vessels; otherwise, the boy would have died in seconds. He also believes that the boy’s life was spared for something important. Mykyta is sure that he survived to become a car mechanic and return to Ukrainian Bakhmut to see the city rebuilt from the ashes.
Before the full-scale war, Mykyta and his mother weren’t religious, but this experience changed that. “God gave me a second chance. Now I have two birthdays. The doctors said that I was born in a bulletproof vest,” the boy says. Mykyta and his mom were baptized in the hospital chapel.
“Write his name in Your book of life, join him to Your flock, so that through him Your holy name and Your beloved Son and Your Life-giving Spirit will be glorified”
(from a traditional prayer during the sacrament of baptism)
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