April 8, 2022

Praise Reports

  • UN – With 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions, the UN approved the suspension of Russia’s membership at the Human Rights
    Sabotage Averted – Ukraine’s military: 16 sabotage groups caught in Kyiv in past 2 days. Oleksandr Hruzevych, deputy chief of staff of Ukraine’s Ground Forces, said that some of the members of the sabotage and reconnaissance groups are recruited Ukrainians
  • US Lend-Lease – A new Lend-Lease program has been proposed in the Senate with Bill S. 3522. It was actually introduced on Jan. 19, but revived and “engrossed in the Senate” as of Wednesday. A revived Lend-Lease program would be operated by the US and key NATO allies. It would provide largely for free the weaponry that Ukraine needs to win. This should go far beyond the current supply of anti-tank and light anti-aircraft missiles to include medium and long-range air defense systems, mobile artillery and war drones, as well food, fuel, medical and other supplies so that Ukraine can sustain its fight. The US should aim to rapidly provide the logistics systems to provide constant aid flows into Ukraine. At the NATO border, huge stockpiles of lend-lease war materiel and supplies would be put in place for onward transport across the border. Heavily reinforced NATO units along the alliance frontline would meanwhile ensure the security of member states and deter Russia from cross-border attacks.
  • Pushback – Footage from Mariupol showing a Ukrainian BTR-4E APC attacking two Russian T-72 tanks from the rear with a 30mm cannon. Apparently, both tanks received serious damage. Ukrainian army repelled 6 Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine, destroyed 4 tanks, 5 APCs. And Ukrainian troops repelled Russian offensive at Kreminna and pushed them 6-10kms from the town. Also the entire north of the country is completely clear of all Russian soldiers.
  • Ukrainian Army – Today numbers 300,000 and within a couple of weeks will number 500,000 while the Russian army is only 150,000.
    Negotiations – Russian FM Lavrov rejects the idea to discuss Crimea and Donbas at peace talks between Putin and President Zelensky
    Japan – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced new sanctions on Russia, including a coal ban, slamming Moscow for violations of international law in Ukraine
  • Truth Revealed #1 – US – SecBlinken: “With each day, more and more credible reports of rape, killings, torture are emerging, and for every Bucha, there are many more towns Russia has occupied &more towns it is still occupying—places where we must assume Russian soldiers are committing more atrocities right now”
  • Truth Revealed #2 – UK – Johnson describes Russian forces’ attacks on civilians in Ukraine as a “systematic massacre” of innocents
  • Truth Revealed #3 – Ukraine – @DmytroKuleba nods to “long term implications” of sanctions while speaking to NATO, but “people are dying today. Their offensive is unfolding today. And we need steps which will stop Russia’s war machine today. As long as this hasn’t been done, we cannot speak about.full efficiency of sanctions”
  • Truth Revealed #4 – G7 – Statement of @G7 Foreign Ministers on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: “We condemn in the strongest terms the atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces in Bucha and a number of other Ukrainian towns.”
  • Truth Revealed #5 – Germany – Radio transmissions in which Russian soldiers appear to talk among themselves about carrying out premeditated civilian killings in Ukraine have been intercepted by Germany’s foreign intelligence service, a source close to the findings has said. These appear to be related to Bucha as several of them can be directly matched to locations and objects shown in photos that document the aftermath of the killings, the magazine reported.
  • Truth Revealed # 6 – EU foreign minister Borrells and the European Commission’s president are heading to Kiev by train – as more and more officials see the devastation and people affected firsthand the lies that Russia tells to undermine a unified and appropriate international response are rendered powerless
  • Truth Revealed #7 – Belarus – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday, that there would be no Ukriane deal begin Belarus’ back and that his country must be involved in negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine and that he expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the next few days.
    Truth Revealed #7 – Mariupol – He also claimed Russian troops were preparing “elaborate propaganda scenarios” to make it look like civilians they had killed in Mariupol were killed by Ukrainian soldiers
  • Truth Revealed #8 – Russia claims that only the Ukrainians are using Tochka-u missiles like the one that hit the train station in Kramatorsk, claiming it was a false flag operation of the Ukrainians but in fact on March 31 it was reported that the “Russian military forces’ Tochka-U ( NATO reporting name is SS-21 Scarab-B) tactical ballistic missiles are operational again, according to open-source-intelligence analysts who scrutinize photos and videos on social media. Belarus-based analyst released Wednesday video footage reportedly showing a column of Russian military vehicles with “V” marks, which was moving from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. There were at least 8 Tochka-U, several BTR-82a, about 9 KamAZ trucks, some of which are carrying Tochka-U missiles, communication vehicle and a crane.”
  • Truth Revealed #9 – Russia – Kremlin spokesman admits that Russia had “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine. “Either you help this now – and i’m speaking days not weeks – or your help will come too late and many people will die, many civilians will lose their homes, many villages will be destroyed exactly because this help came too late”
  • Truth Revealed #10 – Russian Soldiers – The Su-35 that was taken out earlier this week was shot down by the UK Starstreak system, proving that for all its technology, not one Russian airplane flying under 12,000 is safe, meaning that ever Russian pilot is most likely going to die each time they take off, which is catastrophic to morale. Also with the introduction the US Switchblade kamikaze drone means that at any point out of nowhere death can fall on Russians, meaning they are left terrified night and day. And now Ukraine has 10 anti-tank missiles for each tank in the Russian army, making the attempts to mount a meaningful tank attack very difficult as no soldier wants to die.
  • Truth Revealed #11 – Russian Economy – The Central Bank of Russia has maximum $120 Billion left which is at maximum enough to keep Russia afloat for 3 months. But with looming default there are no outs for Russia. Russian companies are being “asked” to do their part for the war effort in response to sanctions by cutting costs, aka firing workers, furloughing workers, and simply not paying or paying workers dramatically less.
  • Truth Revealed #12 – Russian Elite – Kadyrov increasingly is speaking critically of the how the war is being run and the fact that Kiev was abandoned. Girkin, the minister of Defense of the so-called the Donetsk People’s Republic has said if Putin doesn’t push to a true victory in Ukraine then he will end up like Tsar Pavel I who was secretly assassinated by his own officers. And Girkin calls Medinsky and the negotiations with Ukraine actually treason!
  • NATO – NATO will expand support for Ukraine, Georgia and Bosnia: Stoltenberg.
  • Mariupol – Footage from Mariupol showing a Ukrainian BTR-4E APC attacking two Russian T-72 tanks from the rear with a 30mm cannon. Apparently, both tanks received serious damage.
  • European Parliament – The European Parliament is urging all member states to immediately embargo all Russian energy imports and to more fully apply sanctions. On Thursday, 513 MEPs voted for the resolution measure with 22 voting against and 19 abstaining. The European Parliament does not have the power to force countries to comply, but even countries like Germany and Italy, which are especially dependent on Russian energy, have expressed a willingness to work towards cutting off Russia.

Pray Points – Today’s Latest

  • Mariupol – still 100,000 people are trapped and need to be evacuated. More than 5,000 civilians, including 210 children, have been killed in Mariupol since the start of Russia’s invasion, the mayor of the besieged city said. Mayor Vadym Boichenko said 90% of the city’s infrastructure has been destroyed
  • Dnipro – The mayor of Dnipro, a city in central-eastern Ukraine, has urged women, children and elderly people to leave because fighting with Russia is expected to intensify in eastern regions.
  • Evacuations – Russian army conducted airstrike near bridge at railway from Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. 3 evacuation trains blocked until further notice – Evacuation trains, blocked as a result of an air strike by the Russian army in the area of Barvinkove station, continued to move along the route. Direct Missile strike on Kramatorsk train station where thousands were waiting for trains to flee resulted in 39 dead and 100 injured. Pray evacuations continue!
    False Flag – Russian Investigative committee claims that explosion of arsenal in Belgorod region on 29th March was caused by 3 Tochka-U missiles launched from Ukraine and resulted in 8 servicemen wounded and destruction of 21 vehicles
  • Russian Lies – Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-Russian construct that has no civilisational substance of its own, a subordinate element of an extraneous and alien civilisation,” wrote a RIA Novosti columnist earlier this week. The “re-education” of Ukraine could take a generation, he wrote, adding that “besides the highest ranks, a significant number of common people are also guilty of being passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices”.
  • Zelensky – declared that the most recent round of were in adequate, because they did not go far enough simply and encouragement to rush it to attack again! Also he said that because of the negative processor Bucher the Russian troops are changing their tactics and attempting to hide and cover up the evidence of their atrocities as they leave regions. One of the ways they’re doing it is by operating crematoria in Mariupol.
  • NATO – Today the foreign ministers of NATO countries as well as those of Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Georgia, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea are slated to hold a meeting to discuss Ukraine in Brussels
  • False Flag – Russian Ministry of Defense accuse Ukraine in preparation of false-flag operation with chlorine in Pervomaiskyi of Kharkiv region
  • Evacuation & Panic – Ukraine has urged civilians to leave the east of the country “while the opportunity still exists” before a massive Russian military assault that it expects in the coming days. The governors of the Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions were calling on people to move immediately to safer areas. “It has to be done now, because later people will be under fire and face the threat of death. There is nothing they will be able to do about it.
  • May 9 – Reports are that Putin needs the invasion successful in time for the Victory Day parades, thereby threatening great attacks over the coming month. Putin would want to have an “announceable success” by then, which could create “some tension” with Russian commanders as exhausted forces were likely to be thrown into battle fairly soon in an attempt to gain ground in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv.

Pray Points – Continued

  • Europe/US – pray they will block all gas imports and provide truly meaningful military support.
  • Russia’s Invasion – pray against the preparations the Russian army is making to re-invade Sumy and Donbas and Mikolaiv
  • Oil – Pray that Europe would have the political will to do a complete embargo of Russian fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal, etc.)
  • Retreating Russians – Russian troops planted explosives at Cookies plant in Bucha, also poisoned all products at warehouses also retreating Russian forces are creating “a complete disaster” by leaving mines on homes and corpses in their wake, as renewed missile strikes on Ukrainian cities were reported. And 200 Ukrainian National Guard troops were also taken prisoner back to Belarus when the Russians left Chernobyl.
  • Sumy/Kharkiv – Many villages completely cut off from all supplies and food and water!
  • Izyum – Russian troops captured Izyum town in Kharkiv region
  • China – Ukraine’s security service said the Chinese government attempted to hack more than 600 websites belonging to the government and other key institutions, beginning before the Olympics.
  • Global Food – there could be a global food crisis as Ukrainian farmers are being forced to limit what they plant due to the war. And also due to the fact that the main ways that they have a reaching global markets through the Black Sea is now blocked by Russia. Russia and Ukraine together produce 25% of all green in the world!
  • Refugees – According to Polish border guards, more than 2.4 million people have fled Ukraine to Poland . However, supplies have dropped off and now the whole regions are struggling.
  • For the Weak – Russia has flown more than 300 air sorties over Ukraine in the past 24 hours: senior U.S. defense official
  • Russian Elites – to turn on one another and on Putin
  • Russian Conscripts – President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia’s annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
  • Russian Mercenaries – British military intelligence said on Monday the Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, has been deployed to eastern Ukraine. “They are expected to deploy more than 1,000 mercenaries, including senior leaders of the organization, to undertake combat operations,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense said. These are particularly used to create terror to break the back of citizen resistance in occupied territories
  • Russian Military – continuing to press in the north, but the real danger is that Russia seems to preparing for an all-out push in Donbas to encircle the Ukrainian army and to take the entire region and to create a united front against Ukraine.
  • Russian Soldiers – pray for their physical,emotional and spiritual well-being and for them to have the courage to face the Truth and the opportunity to receive the Gospel which is the ONLY answer to the atrocities they’ve already committed.
  • Russian Opposition – that those in the inner circle will see a way out and that Russian Opposition would be able to gather together in a meaningful way
  • Russia Offensive – Russia attempts to break
  • The Truth – In all things that the Truth would be painfully evident and unavoidable in all public discussion
  • Ukrainian Army – Russia is attempting to encircle the Ukrainian Army in Donbas
  • Russia – for the people to wake up to the Truth and rise up
  • Putin’s Inner Circle – to fragment and turn on one another
  • Protection of the Weak
  • The West – to not grow numb to atrocities, but be compelled to action
    • Military Aid – High Altitude Missiles
    • Evacuation – Mariupol
    • Peace Keepers – to aid evacuations and protect and provide humanitarian aid

Prayer Strategies

  • Corruption & Domination Falls
    • Russia, Belarus & Ukraine
    • The Former Soviet Union
    • China, India, UAE & Saudi Arabia
  • Truth & Freedom prevail
  • The Gospel is spreads like wildfire
    • From Ukraine
    • To Russia
    • To the whole world

Prayer Encouragement

“Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!”

— Andrew Murray