Author: Dal Stanton
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9/10/2022 – Liberation

From Lyuda (Day 198): Dear brothers and sisters, Thank you very much for your prayers and the words of comfort for our church and for Vitaliy’s family. Today the funeral ceremony will take place in the town funeral hall and then there will be dinner and fellowship afterwards. I know that many people will come…
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9/9/2022 – Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 2: The Genesis of Nations

Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages.
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9/9/2022 – Brasov, Romania: Remembering

From Lyuda (Day 197): Dear brothers and sisters, Every day brings us new events, news that we expect and which can be unexpected for us. The only thing we can do is to accept them and give thanks to God. Yesterday, the entire news feed was filled with information about the death of Queen Elizabeth.…
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9/8/2022 – Extended war update and commentary: Yesterday and Today

From Jamie Peipon: YESTERDAY- In the space of 24 hours, I was in Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Hostomel, Bucha, Irpin, and Kyiv. Over the following two days: all the way back to L’viv and then Krakow. That’s about 930+ miles of travel. There are a lot of things to unpack from the trip and a lot of…
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9/8/2022 – Brasov, Romania: Family joys

From Lyuda (Day 196): Dear brothers and sisters, I am in Romania and I am happy to be with my grandchildren. My trip was good. I travelled by bus through Moldova and enjoyed the views of beautiful fields and gardens. How nice when people can work on their fields in peaceful country. I had some…
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9/7/2022 -Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion

Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Class 1 is an introduction to the course and an exploration of questions raised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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9/6/2022 – From Odesa to Romania

From Lyuda (Day 194): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a good day in Odessa yesterday and stayed over night in our office. Today Sergey will put me on a bus and I will go to Romania to visit my daughter and my grandchildren. I am very excited to go to see them and to…
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9/5/2022 – Kharkiv: Father prays over dead son

From Hromadske: The police calms down a man holding the hand of his dead son – today Russian troops once again fired at Kharkiv. The strike killed three people, including a 13-year-old boy. The 15-year-old sister of the dead boy received fragmented injuries. A 72-year-old woman was also injured. “Communal” writes that a father for…
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9/5/2022 – At Ivano-Frankivsk and war update

From Jamie Peipon: In the picture above, you can see the skyline of beautiful Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The church is the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Resurrection. To its right, you can see a mural on the side of a building which is actually a portrait of the city’s namesake – Ivan Franko. In the…
