From: Ira Kapitonova (Day 815)
By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,
O God of our salvation,
the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas
Psalm 65:5
Today is another remembrance day – the 80th anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.
On 18 May 1944, early in the morning, Soviet soldiers came to the homes of Crimean Tatars in Crimea and gave them 10 minutes to pack. People were then taken to railway stations and deported to remote regions of Central Asia and Siberia in wagons for livestock and goods.
The inhumane curfew regime was established for 12 years, from 1944 to 1956, and caused the mass death of Crimean Tatars, the majority of whom were old people, women, and children. According to the official statistics, 191,044 Crimean Tatars were deported, but according to the self-census conducted by the National Movement of Crimean Tatars, a total of 238,500 people were deported from Crimea, and 46% of them died in the first years.
Crimean Tatars were forbidden to return home until 1989.
Unfortunately, the world did not condemn this terrible crime in a timely manner. Now, Russia is committing genocide against the Ukrainian people and is once again persecuting Crimean Tatars. Daily mass murders, kidnappings, and the forced deportation of thousands of people are once again the realities of today.
Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Canada have recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide, but the guilty remain unconvicted, and unpunished evil returns and spreads. Let’s pray for the restoration of justice so that this evil doesn’t spread in a few decades.
Voice of Ukraine 
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Two years ago..
From Lxxx (Day 86): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a good day yesterday. Nice embroidery shirts that everybody was wearing created a good mood. And no air alarms during the day made us really happy. In the news though we heard that there were attacks in Odessa but the rockets were successfully destroyed by our air defense.
Sxxxx was driving yesterday because we were delivering food packets and he gave a lift to some teenagers of our youth group who live outside the town and can’t get to the youth meeting they had yesterday. Sxxxx leads youth group meetings now while the youth leaders serve in the army. They had a picnic yesterday not far from the house of one of our church members, so in case of air alarm they can take refuge there. But praise the Lord nothing interrupted their meeting yesterday.
Yesterday a new woman came to our local defense center to volunteer. Her name is Oxxx, she is about my age and she is a refugee from Kharkiv. All people who had to leave their homes have one thing in common: they speak with such love about their cities describing their favorite places, their homes. One day when Kharkiv was bombed the rocket hit the building where Oxxx lived. Though her apartment wasn’t destroyed there was no electricity and water any more. Right now it’s impossible to live there. When I asked about her needs she said that she can’t afford buying fruit jam which she likes very much. I know that one lady in our church will be glad to treat her with the fruit jam she makes.
The counselors of our center are very busy now. Most of the counseling they do online or on telephone. We don’t always know how the clients find us. Probably some of them see our website, some might be referred by different volunteers we have contacts with and now the state organizations also refer people for counseling. It’s interesting that while being so busy we began to communicate with each other more often. We discuss some difficult cases, share new information and pray.
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