Author: Dal Stanton
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8/11/2022 – 48 hours after Crimea – more Russian atrocities uncovered

From Jamie Peipon: With the strike on Crimea almost 48 hours in the past, the traffic jam to leave the peninsula is still backed up. In the picture below, you can see the highway that leads to the bridge back to mainland Russia is packed. According to today’s follow-up reports, there were at least 60…
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8/11/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Rxxx’s story of escape

From Lxxx (Day 169): Dear brothers and sisters, There was a thunderstorm at night and we reacted to every sound of the thunder. We knew that it was thunder but still had some strange reaction. But it’s much more pleasant to be woken up by thunder than by the siren. The day is cool and…
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8/10/2022 – War update and commentary: Ukrainian attack of Russian base in Crimea

From Jamie Peipon: Sometimes writing these updates feels like writing the same story over and over again. Other days entire paradigms seem to shift in a moment. This morning, a paradigm seems to have been so radically altered that it can’t even be described as a “shift.” I’ve written about the war’s southern theater, the…
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8/10/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Ukraine retaliation in Crimea

From Lxxx (Day 168): Dear brothers and sisters, Every day starts with hope. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that…
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8/9/2022 – War update and commentary

From Jamie Peipon: In the picture above you can see how close regular people on public transportation are to acts of war. The warhead on this missile obviously didn’t detonate. But what do you do? You can’t just go pulling it out of the ground… but you also can’t just stop everything in the city…
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8/9/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 167): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s so nice to open the window and hear the singing of the birds. We thank God for a quiet night after a restless day yesterday. Five air alarms one after the other! Around 10 a.m. a few moments after the siren began I heard the sound…
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8/8/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 166): Dear brothers and sisters, We are glad to start a new week and we have many plans already. We had a peaceful night but this morning started with an air alarm and we got the information about the enemy planes approaching our area. Everything is quiet so far. We had a…
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8/7/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 165): Dear brothers and sisters, We wish to have a good worship day! We are looking forward to our worship today and we are ready to meet new people in our church. During this week I made several calls and talked to people I met last Sunday and I hope they will…
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8/6/2022 – War Update

From Jamie Peipon: Lots of rubble… everywhere. Every bombing that takes place, and they’re taking place multiple times a day, necessitates the presence of emergency workers who labor to rescue their fellow citizens from beneath that rubble. There will be clean up for years. It can be hard to find pictures to share here when…
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8/6/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 164): Dear brothers and sisters, May God bless you and give you much love and blessings! This week was busy and full of different events and we were glad that there were many opportunities to serve, to communicate with people and to have fellowship as a church. Our brother Vxxxx is back…