Firsthand Accounts from Ukraine

Mar 24, 2022

Make a tangible difference on the ground in Ukraine

A wife and mother of three recounts what it was like to have to leave their home in Ukraine . . .

Vika says that after many days of trying to stay safe in their town just outside Kyiv, they had to leave:

I just had a feeling that we had to get out of there. Every minute you hear these explosions, these shots somewhere nearby, it’s hard to understand, are you a target? Even if it’s silent, the silence feels ominous. There is just this constant sense of danger.

A woman named Daria escaped the port city of Mariupol with her children, but what she left behind haunts her:

They try to give the water first to the children and then to the elderly. For themselves, they just wet their lips. That’s not an exaggeration. They wet their lips so as not to die from thirst. Also, there are almost no windows left in the houses. Recently, it was minus five degrees in Mariupol. People are freezing in the cold.

On and on the stories go (these were reported in The New York Times). I don’t have room to share them all, and I dare not reveal where our on-the-ground teams in Ukraine are located.

But I could fill pages—one horror story after another, each one breaking your heart.

Your compassion has reached many of these refugees who were suffering in the dark. Your generosity means those we can reach won’t remain thirsty, hungry and hopeless.

Stand with Liberty Relief International today with your gift of 50, 100, 500 dollars or more, and you will minister to their spiritual, physical and emotional needs.

Our partners on the ground are delivering backpacks full of practical items and faith-based materials for children while offering in-the-moment help to people in need of food, water, shelter and spiritual support.

Please stand in the gap for refugees, for the displaced, for families like Vika’s and Daria’s—desperate people on the run.

I believe God will honor your compassion … Scripture tells us that “there should be no division in the body, but … its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it” (1 Cor. 12:25-26).

Thank you for your compassion and personal involvement.


Mat Staver


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