September 30, 2025
Fill This Container: Conditions in Ukraine Spark a Major Effort at ICOM
Mulberry Int., ICOM, IDES, Lifeline, and FAME collaborate to fill at least one 40-foot container and have it over to the people of Ukraine by 2026.
Articles for tag: Kyiv
December 17, 2022
10 Months into War: A Grim Situation in Ukraine
After 10 months of war in Ukraine, more than 75,000 residential buildings have been destroyed, 40 percent of the electric grid is critically damaged, and many villages and small towns have been wiped out. Thousands have died and millions displaced. Amid all this, Christians are at work helping their friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
June 30, 2022
Ukrainians Plant Crops, Gardens Despite Uncertainty
As Ukrainians struggle to grow food this summer, they fear that Russian troops might steal whatever can be harvested. Anya and Andrei are trying to garden for the first time at a relative's small country home. Neighbors have tried to help them as much as possible . . .
April 27, 2022
Medical Missionary Follows Patients from Ukraine to Germany
June Johnson, who served in Ukraine as a medical missionary with CMF International for 24 years, until the war started, has found a way to continue serving many of the Ukrainians she cared for previously, but now in a different country.
April 15, 2022
UKRAINE: The Stories of Two Women Who Fled Hostomel
Both Sonya (a teacher) and Marina (an airport worker), along with their children, fled Hostomel—a suburb of Kyiv—not long after Russians began bombing their town. They both have now joined the humanitarian effort to help their fellow Ukrainians.
April 10, 2022
A Story of Love Made Visible in War-Torn Ukraine
Ina never believed in God. She thought faith was for weak people and the elderly. In the course of being rescued (with her daughter) from embattled Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, she came to learn the truth. . . .
April 7, 2022
UKRAINE: Terror, Trauma in Kyiv’s Suburbs
As stories of atrocities committed on innocent civilians by Russian soldiers continue to emerge from Kyiv’s suburbs—including Bucha, Gostomel, and Irpin—people around the world are outraged. Ukrainians and westerners have mobilized to care for traumatized people . . .
March 24, 2022
UKRAINE: How Do the People Survive?
Since the Russian invasion a month ago, Americans have heard many stories of Ukrainian refugees flooding Europe, but what has happened to those who remain in cities under siege?
March 20, 2022
UKRAINE: Christian Ministries in Poland Organize Relief
Ministries across Poland are opening their doors to the flood of refugees fleeing the fighting in Ukraine. Said one, “We want to create a space where all our refugees can come [and] take whatever they need, so they don’t have to worry about it.”
March 9, 2022
Ukrainians Providing Aid to One Another
In the midst of war, Ukrainians are reaching out to help one another survive. Ukrainians who initially evacuated certain areas have since been attempting to return to areas of intense fighting to bring food and supplies to people trapped there. . . .
February 26, 2022
UKRAINE: Christian Church Ministries Respond to Russian Invasion
The president of a Christian institute in Kherson, Ukraine, along with his family and the college staff, have fled to a seminary in western Ukraine. Meanwhile, a church in Kherson now shelters 300 refugees.
February 25, 2022
Pray for Peace in Ukraine
I met Oksana Kuklinowsky when I was preaching in several churches in Ukraine. Her husband, Valeri, was minister of the church in Zdolbunov, in eastern Ukraine. . . . Several years later, Valeri was killed in a tragic accident, leaving Oksana to raise their five children. . . . I tell you all this because I need to put a face, or faces, on Christian families in Ukraine. . . .
