Recently Andrew travelled into the occupied territory of Eastern Ukraine—to the once bustling city of Gorlovka that has been turned into rubble by Russia’s supported terrorists. Andrew a report that will be included in the August UKRAINE MISSIONS newsletter but I wanted to excerpt part of it as a highlight to the situation in the east. He recorded part of a FIVE HOUR shelling and the YouTube link is below where you can listen.
As you watch and listen to this report you can understand why over TWO MILLION have fled the terrors of eastern Ukraine for the safety of western Ukraine and why there is an urgency for our shipments sending relief medical supplies and basic living items.
Here is Andrew’s report (please continue praying for those that are restricted in the occupied areas):
“As I wrote in the previous report, on August 5 I went to occupied Gorlovka to support, strengthen and encourage Christians who live there. During two weeks I conducted two worship services, several Bible classes, many visits in the homes, in the hospital and individual Bible classes. I was encouraged by the fact that during my stay in Gorlovka, Oksana, the mother of one of our brothers in Christ came to the worship services and all Bible classes. She showed much interest in study of the Word of God, and I did my best to give maximum attention to studying with her. I pray that her desire for God and thirst for His Word would not grow cold. Previously Oksana showed no interest to God and His church, but present sufferings and daily dangers because of the war caused her to reconsider her view of life.
“During this trip the battles around the city were very severe. Almost every night was accompanied by artillery duels during which one could hardly fall asleep. I recorded the sounds of the shelling on August 17. The battle that day lasted for five hours. The recording was done in the apartment; in the open air the sounds of the cannonade are much louder and scary. Every such shelling causes destruction of the houses and other administrative buildings.
“There are casualties also.
“These are the pictures of the results of the shelling of the city during my stay there.
“Without a doubt, the most dangerous thing in the trip to Gorlovka is the crossing of the front line. On coming to the occupied territory I escaped the shelling simply because the bus on which I was travelling was delayed for several hours…
“Recently the media informed us that the authorities of the DPR (the abbreviation for the Russian supported terrorists—“Donetsk Peoples Republic”) plan to turn off all the Ukrainian mobile operators on the territory under their control. This means that all the people who live there will be totally cut off from their relatives and loved ones and all other people who do not live on that territory. I thought that time had already come on August 17th when the entire city was left without mobile connection. I had no possibility to communicate with my family and all my brothers and sisters on both sides of the front line. But it turned out that the connection was lost because of the shelling and sometime later it was restored.”
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