Category: Updates
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6/23/2023 – Reuters: UN adds Russia to global list of offenders for killing children in Ukraine
From The Kyiv Independent by by Dinara Khalilova: The United Nations added Russia to a global list of offenders for killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, according to a report to the UN Security Council obtainedby Reuters. Reuters cited the UN chief saying Russian forces and associated groups are confirmed to have maimed 518…
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6/23/2023 – Counteroffensive edition: How Ukraine can pin down Russia in Crimea without an invasion
From Atlantic Council by Col. John B. Barranco (Ret.): 2021-22 US Marine Corps senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, now executive vice president of Potomac International Partners Crimea—it’s the location that most often captures international attention when it comes to Ukraine’s fight to regain all its lost territory. But…
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6/23/2023 – No child should have conversations about the best place to hide during a missile attack
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 484): The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.Psalm 34:18 The hot weather adds to my emotional weariness, so I limit my checking news and focus on the tasks at hand. However, the reality of war keeps chasing you no matter how hard you…
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6/22/2023 – Russia claims defending Ukraine was ‘terrorist activity’, passes 16-year sentence on former Ukrainian soldier
From Human Rights in Ukraine – Halya Coynash A Russian court has sentenced former Ukrainian soldier Denys Muryha to 16 years’ imprisonment on extraordinarily cynical charges A Russian court has sentenced former Ukrainian soldier Denys Muryha to 16 years’ imprisonment. The prosecution had claimed, and ‘judges’ from Russia’s notorious Southern District Military Court accepted, that…
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6/22/2023 – Russia weaponizes legislation to muddy the narrative around its war crimes in Ukraine
From Euromaiden Press: Russia weaponizes legislation to muddy the narrative around its war crimes in Ukraine, according to British Intel. On 20 June 2023, Russia’s parliament (Duma) voted to create a parliamentary committee to investigate alleged crimes committed by the Ukrainian government against juveniles in the Donbas region of Ukraine since 2014, British intelligence reported.…
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6/22/2023 – Contraband books…
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 483): The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;he frustrates the plans of the peoples.The counsel of the Lord stands forever,the plans of his heart to all generations.Psalm 33:10-11 We visited a local library today. Our son loves this activity and is happy there’s more time for…
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6/22/2023 – “When I tried to read something heavy I was asking myself why I should add heaviness of books on top of heaviness of our life…”
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (482nd day): I always loved to read. I often have at least two books going – I am reading one and listening to another one when I am doing house chores, processing photos or walking to the office. But when the war started for many months, probably till fall of…
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6/21/2023 – My today’s post may seem too fragmented, yet it reflects how I often feel…
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 482): You are a hiding place for me;you preserve me from trouble;you surround me with shouts of deliverance.Psalm 32:7 Such deliberate cruelty is beyond me. Today, the Russians shelled the location in Kherson, where the emergency workers were clearing the site off of silt brought in during the flooding.…
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6/20/2023 – “As one person, I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.”
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 481): Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.Psalm 31:21 Over these past 16 months, we are often overwhelmed with the feeling that we are not doing enough. We desperately want to help bring liberation and…
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6/19/2023 – Fathers’ Day
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 480): For his anger is but for a moment,and his favor is for a lifetime.Weeping may tarry for the night,but joy comes with the morning.Psalm 30:5 It’s Father’s Day… Today, Russia killed a father and his 4-year-old son while shelling residential quarters in the Sumy region. The boy and…
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