The Rev. Mihail Britsin, an evangelical Christian pastor from Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine, is focused on a more secular form of salvation these days, praying for the liberation of his city and what remains of his congregation from Russian military domination.
As the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaches, representatives of Christian and Jewish communities are speaking out about what they say is the devastation wrought by Russia’s invasion, the Kremlin’s attempts to co-opt churches in occupied areas, and the repercussions for those who don’t comply.
Now working in exile with Mission Eurasia, an evangelical group that served much of the region from offices in Ukraine before the invasion, Mr. Britsin said, “I understand God is in control, and he can use anything. If he allowed it to happen, we can overcome it, because he’s the great Father.” He said the group distributed 200,000 “family food packages” in Ukraine and 100,000 Christmas gifts to refugee children in Poland, Moldova and the western, unoccupied areas of Ukraine.
In one city in the annexed Kherson region, Mr. Rakhuba said, a pastor who refused to cooperate with the Russian authorities was found dead three days later. “Believers of different denominations suffered persecution because if they don’t cooperate with Russian occupation authorities, if they manifest their Ukrainian identity, they are persecuted,” he said. The occupiers, he said, “seize church buildings, loot them, or close them for public worship services.”
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