Ukraine Prayer # 519

Ira Kapitonova
O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will strengthen their heart;
you will incline your ear
to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Psalm 10:17-18
I barely slept last night. My brain was alert (and my heart was anxious, to be honest), so I kept tracing missile routes and praying for the affected regions. I heard the explosions of our air defense shooting down missiles over Kyiv (about 10 of them), but they sounded more like distant thunder.
 
There were 29 cruise missiles and 28 drones launched at the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kyiv, Volynska, and Lviv regions. They were targeting energy infrastructure, natural gas storage, and port infrastructure.
 
Once the morning came, I felt exhausted yet ready for the day. After a tough night on Friday, our school was celebrating our traditional Patriot of Ukraine day, so seeing kids in blue and yellow helped me survive the day. And today, after church, we got another share of our life-asserting activities. We got to visit an exhibit dedicated to Alla Horska, a Soviet-time Ukrainian artist brutally killed by the communist regime. Now, her legacy is being destroyed one more time as most of her mosaics are in the currently occupied parts of Ukraine. However, seeing this exhibit and crowds of people attending it (in a downtown area after a night of terror) gave me hope.
 
Please pray for these cities and for the electrical power structures that are being destroyed. It takes months to repair them and it seems that one of them is beyond repair. Pray for a team on the frontline distributing Bibles and bringing hope to the many young men on the front.
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Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team

Today's picture – the remains of some of the best-known mosaics by Alla Horska in Mariupol.