April 13, 2022

Praise Reports

  • Success – Ukraine disrupts attempt by Russian hackers to take down energy provider. Frontline pushed from the administrative border of Dnipropetrovsk region deep into Kherson region – Head of Kryvyi Rih administration Vilkul
  • Evacuations – 2343 people were evacuated to safe areas today from Mariupol, Berdyansk and other cities of Zaporizhiye region. 328 were evacuated from Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kreminna and Popasna of Luhansk region
  • Truth Revealed #1 – Mayor of Bucha: as of today bodies of 403 people, killed during Russian occupation, were found
  • Truth Revealed #2– Germany- Steinmeier not looking happy having received news of Ukraine blocking trip: Says he wanted to send “strong signal of EU solidarity” alongside presidents of Baltics & Poland. “I was ready but apparently (and I need to take note) this was not desired in Kyiv”
  • Truth Revealed #3 – Putin says Ukraine talks are in dead-end
  • Truth Revealed #4 – chemical weapons – U.S. has examined the possibility that Russia could disguise a chemical attack by mixing in riot control agents: senior U.S. defense official. U.S. not clear whether that occurred in Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol, where the Azov regiment said Russia used chemical agents
  • Truth Revealed #5 – US – President Biden labels Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a “genocide” for the first time: “Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank — none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away”
  • Truth Revealed #6 – The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation – 57 member countries) will publish the findings of its investigation into human rights abuses and atrocities committed in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine tomorrow, per spox for the US Mission
  • Truth Revealed #7 – Putin also claimed Russia’s military operation was going as planned, and that Russia’s aim in Ukraine was to meet all its goals and minimize losses. Zelensky in response to this said, how can could anyone say this debacle was their plan with tens of thousands of their own soldiers dead.
    Truth Revealed #8 – Russian Military – bodies of Russian soldiers are finally coming home simply because Russia no longer has the facilities needed to store them as they had been doing in refrigerated box cars and trucks. As such the truth in the scale of the deaths are coming to light in key military towns, leading soldiers and their families to realize that going to Ukraine is a death sentence. And since it is not officially a war but a special operation, they are legally not forced to go so they are starting to refuse to go!
  • US – U.S. has delivered a “significant amount” of the first 100 Switchblade drones to Ukrainian troops and the kamikaze drones are being used in the field: senior U.S. defense official. U.S. is working hard to expedite the supplies of more of the drones that detonate over targets. And top U.S. defense official said on Tuesday that the Pentagon would convene a classified meeting with the leaders of the biggest American military contractors on Wednesday to discuss stepped-up assistance to Ukraines and U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday another $750 million in military assistance for Ukraine for its fight against Russian forces
  • Russian Economy – An unnamed financial institution on Monday asked the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee to decide whether a “potential failure to pay” had occurred in relation to Russia’s bonds. Russia still has 22 days left of a 30-day grace period before the committee would be able to rule that a “credit event” — a default — had occurred.
  • World Bank – The World Bank is planning financial support to Ukraine worth $1.5bn (£1.2bn) to help keep critical services running as the country fights a fresh assault by Russia.
  • Russian Attack Delayed – There are many potential reasons for this delay, as bombers, missiles and artillery prepare for carpet bombing Ukrainian defenses and infrastructure, after which Russian forces from three main points would launch a coordinated all-out assault on Donbas and eastern Ukraine. The issues could be logistical, morale based or tactical, but regardless, it is allowing more time for the vulnerable to evacuate.

Pray Points – Today’s Latest

  • Mariupol – Head of Donetsk regional administration: up to 22000 people were killed in Mariupol, at least 33500 were brought to Russia or occupied territories. While reportedly over 1,000 Ukrainian marines surrendered due to lack of ammunition, but the fighting continues with over 100,000 people still trapped.
  • Kharkiv – incessant shelling has begun there
  • Putin – Putin after meeting with Lukashenka: war in Ukraine is going according to initial plan of General Staff of Armed Forces of Russia
  • YouTube is currently experiencing partial outages in multiple countries; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering
  • Russian Military – Pray for bombers, artillery units and missiles to be disrupted and to fail, for logistics to break down, for morale to collapse, for soldiers to desert and surrender
  • Evacuations – pray for people in the threatened areas of Donbas and the occupied territories to be able to get out.
  • Anti-Aircraft – whether the S300s or Patriots, that true high-altitude anti-aircraft (SAMs) would be put in place and protected.

Pray Points – Continued

 

  • Ukraine – Almost two-thirds of Ukrainian children have fled their homes, the UN says. About 4.8 million out of 7.5 million children had to leave their homes, said Manuel Fontaine from UNICEF. He confirmed the deaths of 142 children, but added that the number is “almost certainly higher”
  • US – pray that Lend/Lease gets fast-tracked and approved in the House
  • Air Raids – the entire country experienced air raid warnings over the past 24 hours to a level never seen in the entire invasion both as intimidation but also for recon in preparation for the coming assault.
  • Economy – Ukraine economy to contract 45.1% this year, Russia 11.2%: World Bank
  • China – Russian ally Serbia took the delivery of a sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft system in a veiled operation this weekend, amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans at the time of the war in Ukraine could threaten the fragile peace in the region.
  • Russian Mobilization – continuing mobilization and amassing of troops and equipment for invasion
  • Rage – Pray against rage as videos have come to the four about Ukrainian soldiers summarily executing Russian soldiers. Although they can obviously feel incredibly justified, this is destructive to them and provides ammunition to Russia their attempt to create an alternative narrative in Ukraine.
  • Russian Military – Russia is sending an 8-mi long convoy of 100s of vehicles, including armored vehicles and artillery southbound through the Ukrainian town of Velykyi Burluk. The convoy is moving about 60 mi east of Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city of Kharkiv, as Russian focuses on Donbas. Russian Ministry of Defense claims destruction S-300 SAM at Chuhuiv airbase and Starobohdanovka in Mykolaiv region. Also claimed destruction of National Guard base in Zvonetske of Dnipropetrovsk region
  • False Flag 1 – Governor of Kursk region says the border checkpoint near Elizovetovka village was shelled with mortars
  • False Flag 2 – Aerosoles from the explosion of a cylinder with 4 tons of nitric acid spread towards the positions of the Russian military near Kudryashivka and Varvarivka, there is no threat to population – the head of the Luhansk regional administration
  • Russian Reinforcements – Russia mobilizing 60,000 reservists to join the war in Ukraine: U.S. senior defense official. Wagner Group is about at 1,000 people “focused in the Donbas, particularly in and around Donetsk” per a senior US defense official. Russia has lost up to 20% of its ‘combat power’ (soldiers, aircraft, tanks and other vehicles) since launching invasion of Ukraine Feb. 24: U.S. senior defense official
  • Luhansk – Governor says “They (Russia) are amassing forces for an offensive and we see the number of shelling has increased, ”and that some 30% of people still remain in settlements there and have been asked to evacuate.
  • Russian Reorganization – Russia has reorganized the command of its battle operations in Ukraine, installing a new general, The commander of Russia’s southern military district, Gen Alexander Dvornikov, with extensive experience in Russian operations in Syria, leads the invasion. He distinguished himself in military circles as a specialist in combating “terrorism,” Receiving high honors from Putin for the ways he led in Chechnya and Syria, both areas where the Russian army has been known for their brutality. He also was the leader of the only units that have been effective in the Invasion overseeing the southern portion of the front.
  • 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.
  • TRUTH – pray that an ever-increasing steady stream of the atrocities committed by the Russians will be revealed and documented to maintain the ever-increasing pressure on political leaders and parties to act with speed, vigor and determination.
  • Russian Lies – Russian Propaganda has gained a huge following in Spanish-speaking countries. For an example of the latest wave, “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”.
  • 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. This also is at the end of the 30-day default negotiation period, meaning incredible pressure is on Russia to achieve victory by then.
  • 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