Last weekend Ukraine was hit by one of the most intense attacks since the war began. Christian Journalist Vitaliy Stebenev brings this report from one of the most damaged areas in Kyiv, where he speaks to a pastor whose home was completely destroyed, but despite this thanked God that his family survived.
VIDEO SCRIPT
Vitality Stebenev
Today at 5 in the morning Russia hit Kyiv and this region with 596 drones and more than 40 rockets.
Behind me you can see this building was destroyed by Russian rockets and my friend lived here. Today we could lose their life but praise God it’s really a miracle that God protected their family and other families who lived here.
Mark Sergeyev
6 am, the rocket came directly somewhere here. So that was, everything was destroyed and my wife was screaming kids, kids. So I screamed like for the oldest one, he’s Christopher said, are you okay? He said, we are alive. So that was so many fire outside and so many cars were damaged and blown. I lost two cars one of them was the van was full of our production stuff for my church. We have a service today Sunday service because we wake up today in the Sunday service and everything except the guitar everything is okay we have a service today. So after a couple of hours I went to the church to like raise up a voice and just worship God that my kids are alive we still standing and still praying God is have a mercy on us.
Vitaly
It’s epicenter of that attack and you can see destroyed houses and now these trucks are cleaning this territory. And I want to ask you, dear friends, to continue to pray for Ukrainian families that struggle because of war. This is reality where we live every day and my family and I were praying tonight that God would protect us from these rockets.
And unfortunately, many families in Ukraine struggled and some of them lost their relatives. And this is reality of Russian peace, as they call it, that they want to bring to Ukraine.
Mark Sergeyev
One of the truths is that this place is only for civilian people. I know every neighbor
that was living here is just a civilian, Christian people, different women with a
son there in front of us, our friends they were just living peaceful life and yeah
there’s no no military at all no no soldiers just you see the damage of how many
apartments it’s just kids and people living here
Vitaliy
We ask you to continue praying for Ukraine supporting our country supporting our
Families. And thank you to many Christian organizations, other kind of organizations that help already Ukraine during this difficult time of war. Thank you for standing with Ukraine. May God bless your families. May God bless your country with peace.
Especially for Global News Alliance Vitaliy Stepenev from Kyiv, Ukraine.
People Interviewed and their Titles
Mark Sergeyev – Chaplain and Worship Leader
Recording Location
Kyiv, Ukraine
Reporter/Producer for the story
Vitaliy Stebenev
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