From: Ira Kapitonova from Kyiv (Day 754):
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in distress.
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Psalm 4:1
Over the past few days, I came across several stories of Ukrainian people living under occupation. One of the stories was about a 19-year-old girl from Donetsk. She had some faint childhood memories of Ukraine (she was 9 when Russia occupied Donetsk) and was brainwashed through the new curriculum introduced in the occupied territories. Her wake-up call came with the full-scale invasion through some bloggers she was following. When they started switching to Ukrainian and speaking about their Ukrainian identity, she began remembering what she had learned in elementary school. She found a way to leave Donetsk and is restoring her documents and adjusting to life in the free Ukraine.
Another story was about two families that managed to escape from the occupied territories. Their children secretly attended online lessons from a Ukrainian school to keep up with the program. One family’s house was searched during their kid’s online Ukrainian lesson. It was a miracle that the occupational authorities, for some reason, omitted the room the child was in. Another family had to fight against their 9-year-old son being sent to Tatarstan (in Russia) on mandatory “retreat.”
The cruelty of Russia knows no limit. They find lots of ways to destroy the next generation of Ukrainians.
Voice of Ukraine 
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Ps 139:7
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in hell, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to You.
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2 Samuel 30 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning *him*, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God…
Psalm 70 Make haste, o God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.
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