Author: Dal Stanton
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12/5/2025 — Amid Peace Talks, Russian Drone Damages Christian School in Kyiv
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…
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12/5/2025 — Ukraine’s warning to the West: A bad peace will lead to a bigger war
From: Atlantic Council By Myroslava Gongadze Almost every night last week, I woke up in Kyiv to the piercing sound of air raid sirens. Like countless other Ukrainians, I scrambled out of bed, grabbed a few essentials, and headed down to the bomb shelter. Not everyone follows this routine. Some people, tired of the nightly bombardments,…
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12/5/2025 — “For Russians, performative cruelty is a tool of war”
From: Roman Sheremeta — “For Russians, performative cruelty is a tool of war,” British historian Antony Beevor told The Telegraph. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are not an anomaly. They are the continuation of several centuries of an especially brutal military culture that the West has long ignored. The mass rapes, torture, and killings in Bucha…
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12/3/2025 — Ukraine Strikes Putin‘s Warlord Bunker (video)
From: Jason Jay Smart — Russia’s war machine is currently suffering a catastrophic system-wide failure that threatens to dismantle both its high-value military assets and its long-term economic stability. In this urgent update reporting directly from the Donbas and Kharkiv, we analyze how a massive and precision-guided Ukrainian drone offensive is successfully blinding Moscow’s air…
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12/3/2025 — Ukrainians in war-ravaged Donbas weigh prospects of peace deal
From: BBC by Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent, Kyiv Trains no longer run to Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region – part of the Donbas claimed in its entirety by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. It’s another sign of the steady Russian advance. Instead, the last station is now on the western side of the Donetsk border. This is where…
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12/3/2025 — Zelenskyy: Ukraine can’t accept a ceasefire that leaves Russia free to strike again
On a visit to Ireland, the Ukrainian president says U.S. diplomacy in Moscow needs to include binding security commitments that make a renewed Russian assault impossible. From: Politico BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK DUBLIN — Ukraine cannot accept any U.S.-Russian ceasefire formula that would allow Russia to “come back with a third invasion,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said…
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12/3/2025 — Ukraine peace plan must not include amnesty for Russian war crimes
From: Atlantic Council By Ivan Horodyskyy The recent Hollywood movie “Nuremberg” provided a timely reminder of the role played by Soviet consent in the creation and legitimacy of the International Military Tribunal established to prosecute Nazi leaders after World War II. The broad outlines of the tribunal had been agreed before the end of the war…
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12/3/2025 — While Trump talks peace, Putin is escalating efforts to erase Ukraine
From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson US President Donald Trump has this week declared “tremendous progress” toward ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. This upbeat assessment comes following a sudden flurry of diplomatic activity sparked by a 28-point peace proposal that caught almost everyone by surprise, marking a new twist in Trump’s longstanding efforts to…
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12/3/2025 — Putin Falsely Claims Pokrovsk Victory as Trump Envoy Heads to Moscow: Russia’s Propaganda Offensive Before Peace Talks
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / December 2, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin personally declared victory in Pokrovsk despite Ukrainian forces still fighting in the city—elevating false battlefield claims to presidential propaganda just as American envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow for negotiations, revealing the Kremlin’s strategy of manufacturing momentum to strengthen its negotiating position. The Day’s…
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12/3/2025 — “The Lord is the strength of his people…”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1378) The Lord is the strength of his people;he is the saving refuge of his anointed.Psalm 28:8 My son is working through his Advent journal. One of the questions asked, “What is something you are eagerly waiting for?” He gave a single-word answer — “Peace.” And his answer pierced…
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