Category: Updates
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5/15/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 81): Dear brothers and sisters, We wish you a good worship day! We hope for a peaceful day today. This night we had an air alarm but nothing bad happened. Praise the Lord! Today I will teach Sunday school for a few children that are left. We will learn the qualities of…
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5/14/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 80): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a nice sunny morning, but they promised rain and our farmers will be upset if it doesn’t rain today because we’ve had a dry month. Our local market is full of greenery and different vegetables. It’s a season of strawberries now and we enjoy them as…
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5/13/2022 – An artist’s gift to Ukraine

I’m an artist (or was, before kids) and I just ran across this drawing I did from a few years ago, and I’m wondering if it could be an encouragement to anyone you are working with in Lviv and Krakow? I made it as I was meditating on Psalm 77….
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5/13/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky – A soldier returns for small respite
From Lxxx ( Day 79): Dear brothers and sisters, It was a quiet day yesterday, we had an air alarm only in the evening, but nothing happened. But we hear of severe bombing of Nikolayev. The enemy continues attacks on Nikolayev to open a way to Odessa and make a corridor from Crimea to Trans-Dniester…
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5/12/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 78): Dear brothers and sisters, I start this day with thanksgiving. Every day we receive information about people who are in very difficult conditions. And we in our town have everything for a normal life. I thank God for His provision, I thank God for each of you, for your prayers, for…
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5/11/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
Lxxx (Day 77): Dear brothers and sisters, Yesterday was a good day, apart from a few explosions in the air. Air defense successfully eliminated the missiles. I often wonder if they hadn’t succeeded, where would those rockets have landed? We made Tuesday a breakfast day for refugees. Txxx and I agreed with a local café…
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5/10/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 76): Dear brothers and sisters, A Victory Day which is supposed to be a day of peace was not like that for us. On May 9, Russia struck Odessa with 7 missiles using aircraft. As a result, 1 person died, 5 wounded were taken to hospital. They hit a big shopping center.…
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5/9/2022 – Victory celebrations – real and false

From the Kyiv Post: Today, May 9, as before, but even more than previously, Putin’s Russia wants to underscore that it considers itself different and separate from its former allies with whom it jointly won victory over Nazi Germany. It is emphasizing that it’s celebrating the Soviet Union’s – read Russia’s, as per Stalin’s subsequent…
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5/9/2022 – Volodymyr Zelensky on the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II, 9 May 2022

From Kyiv Post: “We do not say “we can repeat”. Because only a madman can wish to repeat the 2194 days of war. The one who is repeating the horrific crimes of Hitler’s regime today, following Nazi philosophy, copying everything they did. He is doomed. Because he was cursed by millions of ancestors when he…
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5/9/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Victory Day reflections and realities
From Lxxx (Day 75): Dear brothers and sisters, We thank you for your prayers and your faithfulness in supporting us. Yesterday there was a multiple air attack on Odessa and Odessa region. Some buildings including a big hotel complex was destroyed in Odessa. An electrical substation was destroyed in Artsiz (the city in Odessa region)…