Category: Updates
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9/1/2024 —We are still grateful, hopeful, and optimistic. Yes, the winter is coming, but so is Victory!

From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (920th day) —It’s hard to believe today was the last day of the summer! Summer has flown so VERY fast. This is our third summer of big war. In our life before the pandemic and war, summer was a time for travel, for adventure, for vacation. The pandemic summer of…
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9/1/2024 — May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners!

From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 920) May we shout for joy over your salvation,and in the name of our God set up our banners!May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!Psalm 20:5 Our first school week left me too exhausted on a Friday night to write an update. I fell asleep on a beanbag in…
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8/31/2024 — Putin for the first time will visit a country obligated to arrest him under The Hague warrant

From: Kyiv Post — The Kremlin announced the his visit to Mongolia on September 3. The country ratified the Rome Statute in 2002 and must enforce arrest warrants.
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8/31/2024 — Collapsing Russian economics: sanctions, inflation, refineries, ruin 

From: Anna From Ukraine 🇺🇦 Vlog 791: War in Ukraine
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8/31/2024 — Dispatch from Kyiv: How Ukraine’s incursion into Russia has changed the war

From: Atlantic Council By John E. Herbst KYIV—This week, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center took sixteen of its congressional fellows, Senate and House staff members from both parties, on a whirlwind trip to Warsaw and Kyiv. We rode the train from Warsaw to Kyiv overnight and spent two full days meeting with Ukrainian government officials responsible…
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8/31/2024 — Ukrainian-speaking area in 1897…

From: World GeoDemo 🌍 😲 This is the map of the Ukrainian-speaking area in 1897 according to the population census conducted by the russian empire. As you can see, it goes beyond the border of modern Ukraine..
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8/31/2024 — ‘Silent killer’: Russia boosts grinding Donbas advance with chemical warfare

Ukrainian soldiers are often unprepared and unequipped to counter Russia’s surging use of chemical agents. From: The Kyiv Independent by Asami Terajima DONETSK OBLAST – Gasping for air from a trench in eastern Ukraine, an infantryman was ready for the worst when a suffocating white smoke spread into his position. A Russian drone had just dropped a…
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8/31/2024 — Crates For Ukraine 4.0

From: Pastor Heero Hacquebord in L’viv—Our L’viv church-planting team recently launched the fourth iteration of Crates for Ukraine. We want to provide the kind of humanitarian aid that is most essential and lacking in Ukraine at this time. Therefore we are focusing mostly on some very specific wound care items that provide emergency, life-saving care for injured soldiers…
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8/31/2024 — War Update from L’viv

From: Heero Hacquebord- Pastor and MTW Missionary As you probably know, earlier this month Ukraine launched a sudden incursion into the Kursk region of Russia, catching not only Russia but also Ukraine’s western partners by surprise. Over the course of three weeks several thousand well-equipped, experienced Ukrainian soldiers have now taken more territory in Russia than Russia has…
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8/31/2024 — Ukraine still has no permission to use the weapons provided by Western countries against military targets in ruzzia…

From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (919th day) — Ukraine still has no permission to use the weapons provided by Western countries against military targets in ruzzia. We can use those weapons only to destroy our enemies on the Ukrainian territory occupied by ruzzians. We are not allowed to destroy airfields, ammunition depots, and other logistical…