The Dutch Brothers have arrived

A truck arrived from Holland bringing goods and gas, in fact a big barrel with a pump, we now have our own gas station…

Praise and prayer report!! There is a part of Kyiv region that was heavily bombed and is occupied by Russian forces. We got many phone calls from their asking for help to get out, including a baby orphanage, but it was too dangerous and pretty much impossible, under shooting. Today they have agreed for a green corridor from it. Many vans are lined up in meeting Points getting people and it was officially announced that the orphanage is also being evacuated. We contacted people that asked us for help to make sure they are getting out. Some of them are too far from meeting points and they are too scared to walk.

Please pray for these agreements with Russians to less longer. We need to get people out of their situations and let’s pray for the same for Eastern Ukraine, Mariupol.

Unfortunately the green corridor didn’t apply to everywhere and Mariupol was hit again and this time a children’s hospital.

Our drivers are going deeper and further to reach people, especially these cities that have been bombed. Pray for our drivers, this is Sasha one of our Y people who moved to America. He has now returned to help and is now driving one of the newly provided vans. Pray for them, it’s dangerous but they are dedicated.

Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team

Strollers left by women at a train station awaiting refugee mothers with children.

I listened to a TV commentator asking the question why has there not been an amphibious attack on Odessa? We heard that it was coming, what happened?

This is a report that came out of Belarus,
“When the Russian military fired at the military unit in Volyn, they were supposed to be followed by troops from the Belarusian border. When the Russian paratroopers jumped with parachutes, the wind picked up and BLOWED THEM BACK!”

Wind! Blown away!

Another case of a battle of the elements occurred when the Russian landing force could not land in Odessa, due to the fact that during the planned landing at sea a storm arose and did not subside for three days. They gave up trying to land. How many cases are we not aware of?”

In Kyiv they report that more and more people are coming and they are feeding up to a thousand a day. At the same time trucks are arriving with food and supplies. Our local McDonalds manager came by and said he wanted to help. He is now sends two trucks of food every day. We are now the local McDonalds serving hundreds of cheese burgers.

Our Ternopil center is experiencing a huge increase of people coming through. The center is full, churches are full, we have to keep the people moving toward the border. Meanwhile our people are exhausted, working around the clock catching bits of sleep when they can.

Schloss Hurlach (Our Y center in Germany)

As soon as the word got out that we want to help in the Ukrainian crises, within two hours our little Hurlach village filled up a room with all sorts of donation needed. The mayor Andreas Glatz was able to work together with the fire department of Hurlach to released the fire truck to be used to transport all the donation that people brought in for the Polish-Ukrainian border.

Today we received 27 refugees, orphans from Odessa.

There is much to praise God for, generosity of people around the world providing food, supplies and shelter for the people both inside and those fleeing the country.

• Pray for all those involved with transporting food and people in and out of the country and those bringing it to those stranded in difficult places.
• Pray for many now arriving from around the world to help, that they can be coordinated and put to effective use along the borders and centers that are receiving the refugees.
• Pray for more miracles, for lives to be spared. For more winds to come from heaven to blow harm away.
• Pray for the spiritual battle going on in heavenly places.

Al Akimoff and Slavic Ministries Team

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that is the case, then here is a whole story. This is the train station in the city of Kharkiv.

Pray for our workers all along the border, this is what is headed for them in the coming days and weeks.

Praise God for the many trucks and vans arriving from all over Europe with goods. They are a miraculous answer to the prayers of so many.

Praise God for the safety of the many young drivers, who continue to risk their lives daily to deliver these goods.

Report from Kyiv:

• In the last ten days we packed over 4000 portions of food.
• Delivered groceries to old age homes.
• Handed out supplies at blockposts
• Helped young moms with products
• Drove many many people to safety.
• and so on and on
• But with the new shipment that came in, we will be able to do much more and we are super excited about that.

Thank you all for standing with us. If not for your support, we could not have done any of
these. Please continue to pray!

Al Akimoff and The Slavic Ministries Team

I pass on these words and prayer requests from Anya, a leader of our Kyiv center. She carries a big weight and burden, she and her husband need lots of prayer. She is one of those Heroes that have been raised up among the Ukrainian people.

Her words….
“ I woke up this morning with a picture of Aaron and Moses. It’s been 10 days, hard, heavy, devastating 10 days for the people on the ground in this horrible situation.

Please pray, lift up the hands, the voices to support their spirits, their emotions to support their pain and success.

Specific needs, safety for our drivers. It’s getting more and more dangerous. We need more drivers coming to Kyiv and more in other cities that are not close to the western part.

Pray for the Green corridor to be opened. Today there was an agreement between Ukraine and Russia to make a safe zone from Mariople but the firing did not cease so the corridor has not opened. People want to get out of the hot zones. We are getting messages from many people stranded in places asking for help to get out. It is quite hard. In the villages there are no medications, they have food but no medicines. Pray that we can get the supplies that are needed and for safety for the drivers so that we can get these to the villages where they are needed Many people are arriving in the west, some moving on but many wanting to stay in the west.

Tons of miracles happening every day. Your prayers do matter, the prayers are the changing point in this situation. Don’t cease to pray. Keep crying out, keep standing firm in faith that God’s good plans for Ukraine will prevail.”

Al Akimoff and Slavic Team

Last night was a frightening experience for much of the world. Minutes after it happened it was sent to us and was sent out immediately to thousands of prayer warriors around the world. Praise God for a quick resolution and the fire was put out at the Atomic Reactor power plant.

The most commented on thing these last few days is the amazing response of y people in Ukraine, the border countries and the world. The networks have been amazing. Covid and the zoom revolution also produced a built-in communications system that has been revolutionary in our response during this crisis.

Y drivers are taking people out of Kyiv and to the borders in a systematic way that most transit systems would envy, all in the midst of peril to their lives. Most are women and children and a number of groups of orphans. It is reminiscent of Corrie Ten Boom and her rescue of Jewish babies. Pray for these brave young drivers, they have stories to tell.

Many teams are forming at the borders as they are arriving from many countries. Pray that they will be able to be coordinated and well supplied. A number of Bibles are being donated as well as other helpful materials. One young Dutch lady, who led a ministry of anti-trafficking in Y Latvia, is now working for a government agency and was able to put together a pamphlet that is now being used to prevent this crisis from being exploited in that area.

Pray for our wonderful Y family in Kyiv these next few days, pray fervently as they are coming under intense attack. They are tired and their emotions are spent, rarely do we talk with them that they don’t break down and cry.

I am including a video of one of our beloved Kyiv gals that many know, she serves as DTS coordinator for Ukraine. Hear her story and please pray!

Al Akimoff and the Slavic Team

It’s time like these that we are so thankful for our Y family. This morning we got a report from our center in Ternopil which is in Western Ukraine. One of the leaders got a phone call from a town near Kyiv that had just been bombed. They said they were from a Maternity ward and they had no access to supplies. They desperately need diapers and other necessary supplies. Right after the call he went to the entrance of the building and prayed, “where Lord do, we get these things?” As he prayed a truck pulled up to the building. It was a truck from our Y family in Norway that had just come in through Romania. In the truck were all the necessary supplies that were just asked for.

Please pray for these brave young men who are the drivers, they are ferrying people from Kyiv to the borders and bringing food and supplies to the besieged city. From Czech Republic 6 brave young men arrived to be drivers, they delivered 3 vehicles, one of them an 18-passenger van

As the siege of Kyiv began to tighten, volunteers have suddenly come out of the woodwork, the city has come alive with the movement of people, food and supplies. This has put tremendous pressure on our centers, they are working around the clock. They are tired! Their emotions are on their sleeves, lots of tears flowing. Please pray for them…

Again, press in to the heavenly places where the battles are really raging. Let’s pray an end to this before many more thousands of lives are lost.

Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team

More reports of miracles across the country as the 40 mile convoy of tanks headed for Kyiv is stalled, out of gas? Broken down? Commentators can’t explain it.

At the same time Y drivers continue to ferry people to the borders, ferry medicines and supplies back. They carry food and other goods between the Y centers and countless people they are ministering to.

Thank you for the many who continue to give, 3 vehicles were purchased to build up the fleet that is going back and forth. Two of the young drivers are barely 20 years old, when told they should rest, said, “just one more trip today, there are people to rescue.” They drive on, going through check points where they could be stopped and arrested for breaking curfew. They continue to risk their lives. Their leaders forbid father’s and husbands from driving, it’s too dangerous they say.

The stories keep coming in of people being rescued, countless people hiding in shelters being fed. Thousands continue to cross the borders where they are met by Y volunteers, who drive them to their centers or other receiving places.

There are needs at all of these locations for more volunteers and people are responding from YWAM Europe and North America. Translators are especially needed If you would like to help at these border locations surrounding Ukraine, you can contact:
ELISE: ukraine@ywamce.com for information

Pray for a quick end to this conflict, thousands are now dying in the shelling.

Pray for the deeper, spiritual war going on in high places. Seek the Holy Spirit’s leading in your prayers to understand what is happening in the heavenlies.

Pray for these brave, young y people who are risking their lives daily to minister in very dire situations.

Pray for wise decisions to be made by young leaders as well as the leaders of our nations.

Al Akimoff and The Slavic Ministries Team

A line of tanks stretching 40 kilometers is surrounding Kyiv today. That has propelled our Y workers into more action. A fleet of vans and 20 drivers, risking their lives has been leaving the city full of fearful people, taking them to safety. Their most recent mission was ferrying 300 children to safety.

Receiving these people at the borders are our Y staff and students who have prepared their centers to house them. One of the German centers just took in 41 women and children.
The response has been wonderful at all the borders. The reports say that already 700.000 have crossed and there is a possibility of 3 to 4 million more that follow.

We are so thankful for the response of funds coming in from generous people around the world. That has given our Y family the ability to transport, feed and house thousands. In one besieged city there was a group of 30 Babushkas (grandmas) huddled in a basement. Some of the funds coming in were used to buy groceries for them and many more like them.

The mayor of the city of Ternopil called our Y center to report that 6000 refugees were coming in on the next trains, could they help? The funds are helping to buy food and help the Y staff to distribute these people through churches and homes around the city. As well as to take food to the besieged city of Kyiv. To get fuel, they have to take large containers to fill and use for the vehicles that are transporting people.

As Ukraine continues to be attacked, the situation in Russia is worsening. Over the years our American and western missionaries have been weaned out of the country with economic and anti-terrorist laws that were gradually enacted to close down any western influence. Most western missionaries were eventually forced out. Yesterday, the last Americans were told to leave Russia and the few western Y family we still had have left. They are currently in Central Asia waiting to go back to the U.S. Churches and groups in Russia have been sent questionnaires asking if they have any contact with western nations. Our Y family has no access to funds or help of any kind from outside. There is a lot of hurt and fear about the future and we need to pray for them.

• These next hours will be crucial as Kyiv is being laid to siege. Pray for our Y family there. Many are in subways and basements. Some remain at our center to take in people losing their homes.
• Pray for the drivers, bravely risking their lives to take people to safety.
• Pray for the thousands and thousands standing in lines at the borders. It is cold and they are mostly women and children suffering greatly.

Our Y family has built a great web of people throughout the country through the many churches they have been working with. As a result, they are in a good place to help them, with food and shelter.

Thank you for your prayers and giving.

Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team