From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 514):

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
from the throng of evildoers.
Psalm 64:1‭-‬2

Day after day, my heart breaks for the cities attacked by the enemy. Zaporizhzhia is under attack right now.

Please, pray for Odesa, as this city has been under continuous attacks for a week. Tonight’s missile strike seems to have caused destruction and fire in a temple and residential buildings. Do they pose a threat to the Russian army?

During the war, when so many people die and suffer daily, you reevaluate many things. With all the destruction brought upon our land, I caught myself thinking that we often take our culture and…