Category: Updates
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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…
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9/5/2022 – ‘You Are Russian Now’: A Ukrainian Family Recalls Deportation to Moscow
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: A family from Mariupol described going through a Russian filtration camp and then being taken to Moscow. The mother eventually got her children out via Belarus and Poland, while the husband chose to remain. Human Rights Watch calls the practice of forcibly moving Ukrainian citizens a war crime. Originally published…
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9/5/2022 – The work of the church continues to expand
From Lyuda (Day 193): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a nice day the start of a new week and we are on the way to Odessa. Our center is gradually resuming the work in the office after mostly working online. Our plan now is to start the groups of refugees in Odessa and to move…
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9/4/2022 – L’viv and Crates for Ukraine
From Heero Hacquebord (L’viv Church pastor and MTW missionary): Our church has been honored to partner with many of you – with hundreds of churches in the U.S. from various denominations – through the Crates for Ukraine project which has recently drawn to a close. Over the summer 1,315 crates were packed and flown as…
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