From: Christianity Today by JILL NELSON
Ukrainians are wary of any plan that gives Moscow its “Christmas wish list.”
Eric Moore’s windows rattled as Ukraine’s air defense systems intercepted hundreds of incoming drones and missiles early Saturday. The South Dakota native and director of Kyiv Christian Academy spent three hours huddled in the stairwell of his townhouse with his wife and two sons, ages 7 and 9, during the most intense period of the attack.
Around 6 a.m., near the end of the nearly 10-hour bombardment, the school’s night security guard called. A drone had struck the grounds, blowing out 75 windows and leaving a crater 6 feet wide and 4 feet deep in the front lawn. The guard was patrolling the back of the property and escaped injury.
The K-12 school serves 47 students and shares its building with a private elementary school of 140 children. Moore surveyed the damage when it was safe to leave his home a few hours later.
“People were standing around, taking in the scene,” he told Christianity Today. “A dodgeball tournament had been scheduled for that morning by [the Christian group] Athletes in Action.”
The attack on the capital city left 3 dead and 29 injured while cutting power to the western half of the city. It calls into question the Kremlin’s commitment to ongoing peace talks.
“While everyone is discussing points of peace plans, Russia continues to pursue its ‘war plan’ of two points: to kill and destroy,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, wrote on X.
Voice of Ukraine 