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His Grace Magazine!
May 2022
The Shelling Continues
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Russian Forces are continuing to shell Eastern Ukraine's industrial area
ussian forces are now stepping up their shelling of eastern Ukraine's industrial heartland as they try to push forward with their offensive in the eastern region. It's the focus of their fighting in this 3 month war. The grinding battles that are occurring in the Donbas area, where Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are battling in the towns, have forced many people to flee their homes and towns. Rayisa Rybalko said, "We haven't been able to see the sun for three months. We are almost blind because we were in darkness for three months." She hid her family in their basement at first; afterwards she went to a bomb shelter that was at a local school. She has since fled the town with her family. U.S. President Biden travelled to Tokyo, where he and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned Russia's invasion into Ukraine. President Biden also signed legislation giving
Ukraine $40 billion more in support to help defend itself from the Russian attack. The Polish President Andrzej Duda recently traveled to Kyiv to support Ukraine's European Union aspirations and addressed Ukraine's parliament, where he received a standing ovation after he thanked the lawmakers for allowing him to speak where "the heart of a free, independent and democratic Ukraine
beats." Poland has become a strong ally of Ukraine, as they have welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees. They have also become a gateway for all the western humanitarian aid and weapons for Ukraine. It has also been an important spot for all of the foreign fighters who have volunteered to fight the Russian forces with the Ukraine fighters. With the Western
support for both financial and for weapons to defend themselves, it has been the key to Ukraine's survival. They have helped Ukraine who needs the weapons as they are out numbered by the Russian Forces but are fighting them off and pushing them back. Moscow is setting more limited goals in Ukraine now, setting their sights on trying to enlarge the area that Russia had held previously since 2014. The Ukrainian forces are dug in all around the main city of Sievierodonetsk that is in their control in the Luhansk province of the Donbas. Russia is escalating efforts to seize it. Ukrainian military said that the Russian forces have been unsuccessful in their attack on Oleksandrivka, which is a village just outside of Sievierodonetsk. President Zelenskyy said that 50 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers were killed each day in the east.
