Author: Dal Stanton
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10/5/2022 – The world of easy solutions
From Maia Mikhauk: The world of easy solutions. Yesterday Elon Musk outraged thousands of Ukrainians with his ignorant, somewhat simplistic twit that promoted putin’s ideas of peace: 1) illegal referendums in the regions from where millions of Ukrainians had to flee because of war, hundreds of thousands were forcefully deported to ruzzia and thousands were…
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10/5/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lyuda (Day 224): Dear brothers and sisters, We are glad to have a new day, sunny and warm and we hope it will be peaceful. Yesterday the day was interrupted several times with air alarms and we had two air alarms at night. The attacks of drones became often. But it looks like our…
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10/4/2022 – War update and commentary

From Jamie Peipon: For most of the month of March, Dasha and I couldn’t (wouldn’t?) go to sleep until the sun came up in Kyiv. Lately, we haven’t been going to sleep until we see how many cities Ukraine has liberated. Yesterday and today, Ukraine was again successful in their counteroffensive maneuvers. This time, the…
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10/4/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lyuda (Day 223): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a good day yesterday. We are very much encouraged by the advance of our army. There are more and more liberated places. The occupants are trying to escape bearing serious losses and leaving their transport and weapons behind. It was reported in the news that…
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10/3/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lyuda (Day 222): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a start of a new week. This morning began with air alarm but nothing bad happened and after forty minutes the alarm was cancelled. They reported that there was alarm throughout the country because the activity of the enemy’s strategic aviation was spotted which made missile…
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10/2/2022 – War update and commentary

From Jamie Peipon: Great news in Ukraine today as, less than 24 hours after putin declared it to be the land of the russian federation, the city of Lyman was liberated by Ukrainian forces. Some are reporting that the soldiers there were told they could not withdraw strategically or surrender to Ukrainian forces yesterday (Friday)…
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10/2/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: A family escapes
From Lyuda (Day 221): Dear brothers and sisters, I want to thank you for your messages, sorry that I cannot answer each of them. But I read them with my husband, it’s a big encouragement for us. And sometimes you give us some good and practical advice, thank you. Thank you for your prayers and…
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10/1/2022 – War update and commentary: putin’s speech amid atrocities

From Jamie Peipon: What a day. The president of russia gave a bizarre speech today at the kremlin. He then proceeded to sign several documents to “officially” accept the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions into the russian federation. Here is an exhaustive list that I’ve painstakingly accumulated of every single change made to Ukraine’s…
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10-1/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Disturbing news and memories

From Lyuda (Day 220): Dear brothers and sisters, Yesterday was full of disturbing news and memories.
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9/30/2022 – War update and commentary

From Jamie Peipon: Yesterday there were conflicting reports about whether putin would make any announcements about the results of the votes in Ukraine for fear that announcing a “victory” during the civil unrest caused by the mobilization was not quite the clear-cut PR triumph they were hoping for. But, as you can see in the…