Author: Dal Stanton
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8/25/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Reflecting on a president and faith
From Lxxx (Day 183): Dear brothers and sisters, First of all I want to thank you for your greetings and for your encouragement and support of our country. We thank your countries for helping Ukraine. We had a good day yesterday though there were many air alarms – four at night and five during the…
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8/25/2022 – War update and commentary: Independence Day in Ukraine
From Jamie Peipon: By all accounts, it was a strange Independence Day in Ukraine. There were warnings about mass missile strikes which did not materialize. It could still happen overnight, but it seems unlikely. The number of times the air raid sirens went off seemed much higher than usual. You can hear the sirens in…
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8/24/2022 – War update and commentary: Independence Day, but from what?
From Jamie Peipon: Today, Ukraine marks her 31st Independence Day. Independent from what?
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8/24/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Reflections on Independence Day
From Lxxx (Day 182): Dear brothers and sisters, Today we celebrate the Independence Day. Throughout all our history, our country defended its independence and fought against invaders. In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and we became independent, so many new directions and new opportunities were opened up for our country. But we had to…
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8/23/2022 – War update and commentary
From Jamie Peipon: The picture above is two shots of the same building. It is located in a little town west of Kyiv called Makariv. On the top is a picture from April of this year. On the bottom is a picture from August (this month). No, I didn’t get the dates or the order…
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8/23/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 181): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a quiet night and we hope to have a peaceful day. This day was always a double holiday for us – the Day of National Flag and the day of liberation of our town from fascists – in 1944 on this day there was a…
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8/22/2022 – War update and commentary
From Jamie Peipon: Russia expected that their tanks would parade on Kyiv’s main thoroughfare within three days of the beginning of the invasion. Six months in and they are finally getting their parade. In the picture below, you can see preparations on Kreschatyk street in downtown Kyiv for the celebration of Independence Day on the…
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8/22/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 180): Dear brothers and sisters, This week is going to be very nice and exciting. We will celebrate two big holidays the Day of National Flag ( August 23) and the Independence Day (August 24). And also we are preparing for a wedding of Ixxxx and Lxxx and it’s such a bright…
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8/21/2022 – War update and commentary: Thoughts on nuclear power plant occupied by Russians
From Jamie Peipon: Here are some Saturday night thoughts on the nuclear power plant that is currently under Russian occupation in Ukraine. The Zaporizhzhia NPP is the largest in Europe. You can see a picture of the sprawling facility above. In the second (more blurry) picture below you can see that there are Russian military…
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8/21/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 179): Dear brothers and sisters, We wish you a good worship day and pray that it would be special.We are preparing for the worship and are looking forward to meet new people today. It’s interesting that even in a small town like ours where people know each other and communicate pretty closely…
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