Author: Dal Stanton
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1/9/2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: A former KGB officer
From Lyuda ( Day 320): Dear brothers and sisters, Our day was cold and rainy yesterday but there were many people in the church. It was good that there was electricity and we could have heating and lights and it was warm in the sanctuary. Our elder Valeriy preached and there was a good music…
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1/8/2023 – Glimpses of the ordinary
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 318): I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,…
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1/8/2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Celebrating Ukrainian Folk Music (VIDEOS)
From Lyuda (Day 319): Dear brothers and sisters, Yesterday we had a nice completion of a Christmas season. As we gathered with our group of refugees in the café a local folk musicians came to play for us. It was such a joy to sing Christmas carols and Ukrainian folk songs. There are many carols…
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1/7/2023 – First time in centuries…Ukrainian language
From Pablo Gintov (FB post): Today this gorgeous church, Kyiv Lavra, which is also one of the oldest churches in the region (it was built in the 11th century), for the first time in centuries held the Christmas mass in Ukrainian. Until now, it always had been in Russian. Think about it, when you hear…
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1/7/2023 – Commentary
From Dmytro Bintsarovskyi (Ad Fontes Journal) It has been just under 11 months since Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Few Christians in the West have tried to justify this invasion. Virtually all agree it is an unprovoked act of aggression against a sovereign country. This aggression violates international law and multiple bilateral treaties, in…
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1/7/2023 – Aid is Needed!
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (317th day of ruzzian invasion): The areas where ruzzians temporarily occupied our land are gaping with wounds. The longer the occupation lasted, the more destruction and trauma can be seen everywhere – in villages where not a single house was spared shelling, where roofs of houses look like bare skeletons,…
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1/7/2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lyuda ( Day 318): Dear brothers and sisters, At the end of the Christmas season, I would like to wish all of us to keep the joy and spirit of Christmas throughout the year. Yesterday I cooked for my parents who are Orthodox, vareniki with cabbage and potatoes, which a traditional Christmas food in…
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1/6/2023 – Ben Hodges: Ukraine will liberate Crimea in 2023 (VIDEO)
From Euromaisen Press: Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of the U.S. Army in Europe, tells Euromaidan Press when exactly Ukraine will liberate Crimea, why the Russian-occupied peninsula is a trap rather than a fortress, and what strategic value the control over Crimea has. Speaking to the Kyiv-based journalist, Ben Hodges explains why he is…
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1/6/2023 – War update and commentary
From Jamie Peipon (Day 315): In the picture you can see a demining team working to remove some unexploded ordnance from right next to a Ukrainian church. Also today, because of putin’s obviously deep concern for all things sacred, he declared a ceasefire that was scheduled to begin at noon local time on the sixth…
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1/6//2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: The church in Kherson
From Lyuda (Day 317): Dear brothers and sisters, This Christmas season we think a lot about love and about the price God has paid revealing His love to us. It’s always been hard for us to love each other. Our country was torn apart by political wars for so long. Some people aspired back to…
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