He knows he can't take us to hell with him, but he also knows that many Christians are an easy mark for day-to-day defeat.Ĭhristians who are easily defeated aren’t much of an asset in fighting the good fight (1 Timothy 6:12). (See Ephesians 6:10-18.) Satan knows that Christians are on the winning side, but he does his best to make us ineffective soldiers, or even battlefield casualties. In fact, Christians are the prime targets of the enemy. With multiple cities now under siege, D'Agata says the top priority for Ukrainian authorities is again to attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in catastrophic conditions without food, water or electricity, and in brutal sub-freezing temperatures.The Bible leaves no doubt that every Christian is involved in spiritual warfare. So, it doesn't matter how they fight, we fight like lions and they won't win!" A woman walks past an apartment building hit by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 8, 2022. Yeah, they have a lot of people, a lot of vehicles and tanks, but we fight in our land and we protect our families. "They attack in, just like, in front, they don't do any modern maneuvers. "They're fighting like the soldiers of 1941," he said. One Ukrainian soldier holding a line on the edge of Kharkiv said the Russian forces he was up against - who were only about half a mile from his position - were using outdated tactics. He's used the tactic before, most recently in Syria, where his forces surrounded and then destroyed entire cities to beat rebel fighters into submission.īut D'Agata says when it comes to Russia's ground assault in Ukraine, the Ukrainian forces have two advantages: They're fighting on their own turf, and they're determined to defend every inch of it. The onslaught of artillery fire and airstrikes is President Vladimir Putin taking advantage of the West's refusal to risk a direct confrontation with Russia by imposing a NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine. Russia ramps up attack in key southern cities in Ukraine 02:24 After a strike on a maternity and children's hospital Wednesday in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol drew international condemnation of Russia - and a denial from Moscow - Governor Synegubov said Friday that a health facility in his region had been struck. Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synegubov said there were "no threats to the civilian population yet" from the strikes that hit the nuclear facility specifically, but as D'Agata reports, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been no match for Russia's artillery and aerial bombardment.Ĭivilians in Kharkiv and other battered cities report seemingly indiscriminate killing, with targets, including hospitals and residential neighborhoods. The bodies of Russian soldiers litter the ground around Kharkiv, and after two weeks of ferocious battle and relentless artillery fire, Russia still hasn't taken control.Ī regional official said Friday that Russian forces had shelled residential areas of Kharkiv 89 times in just 24 hours, with some of the strikes hitting an institute containing a nuclear laboratory that Russia claimed several days ago was being prepared by Ukrainian forces for a staged "provocation." Map of Ukraine showing important cities, regional countries and capitals. As D'Agata reports, that's exactly what the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest, has been subjected to for days.
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