Ukraine Prayer # 514

Ira Kapitonova
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.
Salvation belongs to the Lord;
your blessing be on your people!
Psalm 3:6-8
 
The Russian army has set to destroy the areas closest to the border or the frontline. Today, I saw several reports about the Sumy region — daily bombings, villages cut from the main road, evacuation impossible, sick and elderly left behind... My heart is weaping as I still refuse to believe such cruelty is possible.
Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson — these regions are in our prayers every day, for they have suffered enough.
Arise, o Lord!
 
Pray for these cities that are feeling the wrath, pray for those who remain there in the midst of all this suffering. Pray for the many who stood to protest the war and the regime in Russia during these elections. Pray for the liberation of Russia and freedom for Ukraine. 

Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team

Today's picture — is the poignant art by Oleh Shupliak. Two years ago, Russian soldiers threw two 500 kg (over 1,100 lbs) bombs on Mariupol Drama Theater. About 1,000 people (mostly women and children) were sheltering there. They wrote the word "children" in large letters in front of the theater in hopes that this would prevent the aerial strike, but to no avail.